[Opensim-dev] Proposed additional db fields

[Alan M Webb]

As you say, e-mail in user information should be non-controversial, but it 
does highlight the difference between users and avatars. Does the OpenSim 
database actually reflect users? Or avatars? I thought the latter. What 
purpose will the e-mail address serve? I think there maybe more reluctance 
to provide this information than you might think. I'm prsonally nearly as 
opressed by providing my e-mail as I am my telephone number.

Create time, given its one-to-one correspondence with an asset seems OK to 
me, but I think there is probably room for lots of discussion on ways to 
determine currency.



Best regards
Alan
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I've got a couple of proposed db fields that I think we should add in,
but I want feedback before just putting it in.

users:
 * email - this is added by a lot of the web based management stacks,
and would be really handy to be in the base user definition.  I suspect
this is non controversial.

assets:
 * create_time - the unix timestamp when the asset is created
 * access_time - the unix timestamp for last asset access

The rationale for these asset additional fields was some brainstorming
this weekend on how we'd ever support asset reaping.  Why not perfect,
this may help in determining what are active assets, and what are
ancient assets that may be suitable for reaping.  Without these bits of
information, we've got a hard time here.

Comments welcomed,

                 -Sean

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