[Gnumed-devel] Re: housekeeping_todo (was: unmatched [path] results)

[Karsten Hilbert]

> >housekeeping_todo, perhaps ?
> 
> Is it reasonable as a general development / programming convention 
> (for me to add to the DevelopmentGuidelines page) that developers 
> write to this table any reports or issues that will require the 
> maintainers of a gnumed installtion to look after.
Yes.

> What should be the scope of this table?
Anything.

> - records that have been created but which may represent duplicates 
> to check against, and/or whose detail may be partial and attract 
> further information completion?
yes

> - other? should we propose that anyone who expands the scope (usage) 
> of this table, add to some notes (maybe a wiki page I can create for 
> the housekeeping todo table)?
yes

> Should table entries have a standard descriptor e.g.
> - data cleanup or
> - new record created in (table name)
> - - poss dup (possible duplicate)
> - - info may be partial
I would not pre-define that.

> and if the report pertains to a new record that was created, to the 
> table/record pk?
yes, that would be useful and is one of the possible uses of
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Karsten
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