[Data-modeling] Adoptive and other relationships

[Kirrily Robert]

On Apr 10, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Jeff Prucher wrote:

> The relationship types are enumerated lists; more values can be  
> added if needed -- I just populated them with what I thought were  
> likely values.

I'm wondering whether the names of these topics should be more noun- 
like, eg. "Step-child", "Biological parent", etc.  This would mean  
separating the topics for "Biological parent", "Biological child", and  
"Biological sibling", however.

> And just to reiterate Robert's earlier comment, if we do do this, it  
> will totally break any application that uses the parent/child  
> relationship, of which there are probably many. Not necessarily a  
> reason not to do this, but just to keep that in mind.


Yes; if we do it, we should try to provide *very* good notice to  
external developers.

K.


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