On 04/02/2013 12:03 PM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
On 4/2/13 11:40 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> The grim fact is that our logging ID scheme in the AS project is simply
> not sustainable. We have to change it or we will start running into
> major problems, especially as we fork and branch things over time, and
> even more so as we move towards finer-grained components and start
> phasing components in and out. The rename gives us an opportunity to do
> so in a way that *is* sustainable.
>
> We will not break any existing searches/KB keys, and it would be easy
> enough (essential really) to provide a one-time, one-way mapping from
> existing codes to future codes (the reverse would be impossible of
> course, and undesirable in any case) which would be easy to publish.
>
Beyond "essentially really", I'd say required as part of the change, and
no change patch related to this is accepted unless this is part of it.
Then we are getting somewhere. If it's a task to do later it won't get
done, or it will become a crap task that some poor unlucky soul is stuck
with.
Agreed.
I also think any logging id conversion should be an AS 9 task. We
don't
have the bandwidth now.
Sounds fine, with the caveat that once the name is announced, any *new*
subsystems or components should start with the new scheme to avoid
needless conversion later on.
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- DML