Ok, here goes.
Angelox, Cavedude, PEQ = Choice... but
I think we should conglomerate the 3 databases. And this is how I suggest it gets done
(Read the word "Suggest" a few times to make sure you saw it there :P
1. Start with a blank Database (All the base tables ect)
2. Start with one Table and use a nice viewer like MySQL Front to compare the info... copy or export the info needed from each database and compile it into a sql file. Continue this until you have gone threw every table. It may take a long time but if you get different person to do a different table then it will go faster.
3. After this is done source all the .sql files you have into the clean database.
4. Now setup a forum that has a public area and a private area. Public so everyone can submit fixes. Private so you can copy and paste fix code from the poublic area as needed.
The Forums must be set up with an area for every table in the database so that posts go into the forum according to the table the public person is offering the code to edit.
5. Make one date per month..say the 15th. That a new verion of the database is released that way the people doing the editing have 30 days to add or change whatever they want from the forums or privately inbetween the releases. After a edit is made from the public forums message you just delete that message that way the forums stay clean.
6. Make it known to people joining the forums that this isn't a place of discussion but a place of submission for work doen on the Master Database.
I REALLY wish I had time to do Database work again :( Starting my own company has really killed my fun time, but filled my pockets with more than lint.
I know Angelox and cavedude are really the only major player in the database are right now (cavedude now holds PEQ or so i believe) so I guess it is really an idea for them to mull over.
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