FI update: Websites team now stepping up to fix theme package

[Paul Frields]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Mel Chua <mel at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Also, are we using ENGINE=MyISAM with good reasons or just because it
>>> is the default type in mysql? InnoDB offers, IMO, an improvement:
>>> transactions and foreign key constraints ( also row level locking on
>>> updates ).
>>>
>> I have no idea why this has been done, Probably Simon (itbegins) will be
>> able to answer you or Mel.
>> (Yeah I dint setup the pt6 instance)
>
> I set up the pt6 instance, and chose MyISAM because the zikula sandbox
> instructions said to do it.
> (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_set_up_a_Zikula_sandbox#Zikula_installation,
> step 7). Paul wrote those instructions and might be able to chime in if
> there's a reason we don't know about.
>
> My guess is that it's just because it is the default. The first-page
> hits on http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+install+zikula (our
> sandbox instructions among them) say to choose MyISAM, but there's no
> indication of any reason; I can't find any "choose MyISAM or ELSE!"
> documentation after spending 10m looking through the stuff on
> zikula.org. Copying Simon as a sanity check, but my *guess* is that it
> would be fine to switch to InnoDB.

MyISAM is used by default, but I don't know any reason it has to be that way.

-- 
Paul