[Pulp-dev] Proposal to remove 'notes' fields from the Pulp 3 RC

[Brian Bouterse]

+1. Ty for bringing this up @dalley

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 10:47 AM Jeff Ortel <jortel at redhat.com> wrote:

> no objection
>
> On 12/3/18 10:32 PM, Daniel Alley wrote:
>
> *Background:*
>
> "Notes" are a generic key value store where data can be attached to
> repositories and content and publications and so forth.  The eventual plan
> is to use this to enable adding tags to those sorts of objects, which is
> important for Katello.
>
> Most of the code for this is located in pulp/app/models/generic.py
>
> *Motivation:*
>
> "Notes" have been in Pulp 3 for a very very long time and are completely
> unchanged for the last 12 months (the git history doesn't go back further
> because the file was moved).  The data model behind it is extremely complex
> and while we have a few unit tests around it, we have no functional tests
> for it whatsoever, and (to my knowledge) we haven't been using/exercising
> this functionality manually in a meaningful way (if at all).  I could be
> wrong here, but I haven't seen it discussed  or any issues related to it
> filed in quite some time.
>
> *Proposal:*
>
> We should pull out all of the "notes" code (models/generic.py + the fields
> on the aforementioned models) until we've had a chance to properly evaluate
> our needs and whether the current design fits them.
>
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