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The topics listed here are being discussed on the mailing list. They are summarized here for tracking purposes only.

1. Don't want to see a big merge commit land in master.

   • Redo work and group commits into feature-based autonomous commits that can be cherry picked into master, reviewed, tested?
   • Merge and rely on diffing installed schema(s) to verify semantic equivalence?

2. When common table (.sql) files created from rhnsat/tables/ - reformatting makes diffs useless.

   • Redo work preserving as much as possible?
   • Merge and rely on diffing installed schema(s) to verify semantic equivalence?

3. Consolidating the upgrade .sql scripts into a single (ordered) .sql file for upgrades causes downstream packaging problems.

4. Make vs. Blend, why not continue with current Makefile.schema?

5. Why use chameleon?

   • Why not templating?
   • Why not search-and-replace approach using something cobbled up with available technology such as sed, awk, etc ...?