[Nodeshot] Refactoring doubt: device fields firmware and OS

[nemesis]

 Not very complex programmatically. Infact for the Routing Protocols 
 table we have two fields, name and version.

 In the beginning I just hoped to have more human version numbers, but 
 that's ok, the world is complex.

 I will eliminate "firmware", add "os_version" and refactor the 
 automatic scripts so that they insert the firmware name in the field 
 "os" and the version, whatver that is (number, code-name, hash) in the 
 os_version.

 For any other improvement we'll think about that in the future and 
 refactor/db migrate if needed.

 Nemesis

 PS: prepare.. next questions are going to be harder, I'll write as I 
 find spare time


 On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 18:54:56 +0100, Clauz <clauz at ninux.org> wrote:
>> Is it really useful to have separate fields for OS and OS version?
>
> What I am thinking about is make data available to researchers that 
> want
> to write papers like this one:
> http://zenodo.org/record/7450/files/p8-avonts.pdf
>
> But if it is as complex as it looks, let's just dump the big and ugly
> strings in the "OS" field and have the researchers that need the data 
> do
> some processing. I don't see any other application.
>
> Clauz
>
>
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