ANNOUNCE: Tinderbox 3.1 Release Candidate 1 available

[Boris Samorodov]

Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> writes:

> The Tinderbox team is pleased to announce the availability of Tinderbox
> 3.1 Release Candidate 1.  This release brings many bug fixes and some
> new features, particularly with the webui frontend.

Tinderbox is getting better and better. Many thanks for all involved.
Here are some notes.

1. I'm not sure if step 6 "Populate the database with the Tinderbox
   schema" from README is necessary. At least at my case it seems to
   do nothing accept telling that all necessary data already exists.

2. I was a little bit confused when discovered that $DB_DRIVER for
   PostgreSQL differs at config files:
   . $DB_DRIVER="Pg" at scripts/ds.ph;
   . $DB_DRIVER="pgsql" at scripts/webui/inc_ds.php.
   Since I didn't have such confusion with previous tinderbox versions
   seems that it had been documented somewhere but dissapeared at the
   recent version.

3. AFAIK while creating a user for PostgreSQL we should ever give
   the same answers (n,y,n) for the following questions:
   -----
   Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) n
   Shall the new role be allowed to create databases? (y/n) y
   Shall the new role be allowed to create more new roles? (y/n) n
   -----

   I propose to add corresponding options (-S -d -R) to createuser
   command. Thus we may get rid of those extra questions. Here are
   relevant parts of createuser(4):
   -----
       -S
       --no-superuser
              The new user will not be a superuser.  This is the default.
       -d
       --createdb
              The new user will be allowed to create databases.
       -R
       --no-createrole
              The  new  user will not be allowed to create new roles.  This is
              the default.
   -----


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Boris Samorodov (bsam)
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