Closed pleia2 closed 3 months ago
With #97 in the mix, we can expand upon this a bit to share: Whatever mechanism you use to generate your series of YAML files, once the files are in in the distro_data/data_files/ directory, they are then used to generate the tables in MySQL with the bin/database_build.py script.
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Please send PR :D @aarishshahmohsin Also check few of them are already addressed in an outstanding PR
It's somewhat unclear to contributors and users alike how the back-end data sources for the Software Discovery Tool are to be used and/or generated. We should prepare some concise documentation to cover this, something like the following, which I shared in Slack last week:
People who are using the core code of the tool basically have 3 options when it comes to the back-end sources, which we should keep in mind that we want to continue supporting.