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@@ -10,6 +10,23 @@ query the CVS tree. For example,
will tell you what has been changed in the last week.
+10/11/99 Restructured voting database to add a cached value in each
+bug recording how many total votes that bug has. While I'm at it, I
+removed the unused "area" field from the bugs database. It is
+distressing to realize that the bugs table has reached the maximum
+number of indices allowed by MySQL (16), which may make future
+enhancements awkward.
+
+You must feed the following to MySQL:
+
+ alter table bugs drop column area;
+ alter table bugs add column votes mediumint not null, add index (votes);
+
+If you have been using the voting feature at all, then you will need
+to update the cache. You can do this by visiting the sanitycheck.cgi
+page, and taking it up on its offer to rebuild the votes stuff.
+
+
10/7/99 Added voting ability. You must run the new script
"makevotestable.sh". You must also feed the following to mysql: