Table reorg prosposal

My main goal after node optimizations is to support event tags ( ex. "protest ride" ); i started pondering.... and the idea grew a bit. 😊 I went through existing issues on db data, and put together some ideas for a table reorg:

SERIES:

The core ride data. ( similar to calevent; but many fewer columns. )

• id auto assigned integer: The ride and all of its related info binds to this id. ( duplicates the existing calevent.id )
• created time: The date and time the ride was first added to the db. ( TODO: verify migrated data has a decent creation/modified time.
• modified time: The date and time of the most recent change to the ride data. ( TODO: verify this is working as expected )
• published integer: Non-zero when visible to the world, null means revoked/unpublished. Increments every time the ride data gets updated. ( basically, merges 'hidden' and 'change_counter'. If the current data has a null or blank password, then published would be null; otherwise it'd be the opposite of hidden )
• title string: human readable name of the ride.
• tinytitle small text: optional shorter title.
• organizer string: Name of the person or group who authored the ride ( replaces name )
• start_time string: local time as HH:DD. IMPORTANT: this isn't a mysql timestamp! if an organizer on the east coast says "ride starts at 8AM" we can look in the db expect to see "08:00" regardless of their time zone, our time zone, or the server's timezone. ( replaces eventtime )
• ride_duration integer: time in minutes. ( replaces eventduration )
• details large text: contains a complete description of the ride. ( replaces descr )

SCHEDULE:

A specific outing of a specific ride series. These are uniquely identified by the combination of its series and day ( the id and ymd fields, respectively. )

• id ref: Multiple scheduled days can exist for a single ride series.
• ymd string: Day that the ride takes place in YYYY-MM-DD format.
• news string, replaces newsflash
• status small integer: can be 1, 0, or null. 1 is active, 0 is cancelled, null is delisted. ( replaces eventstatus. )
• pkid auto assigned integer: deprecated. exists for backwards compatibility.

PRIVATE:

Holds any and all data that requires explicit permission to display. Rationale: by putting all private data in its own table, we can easily export anonymized data ( by simply excluding this table. )

• id ref: Exactly one private row exists for every ride series.
• secret string: user password.
• show_email bool: Does the organizer want to share their private_email address?
• show_phone bool: Does the organizer want to share their private_phone number?
• show_contact bool: Does the organizer want to share their private_contact info?
• private_email string: The organizer's email.
• private_phone string: The organizer's phone number.
• private_contact string: Any arbitrary information the organizer would like to share about themselves.

LOCATION:

Provides extended data about the start and end of a ride.

• id ref: One or more locations exist for a given ride. For example, all rides have a start, and many have an end. )
• loc_type string: 'start' or 'finish' ( replaces eventtime )
• place_name string: arbitrary name for the location.
• address string: human readable address of the location.
• place_info string: extra info provided by the organizer. ( replaces locdetails )
• time_info string: extra info provided by the organizer. ( replaces timedetails )

PRINT:

Used for the print calendar.

• id ref: At most one print row exists for every ride series.
• printed_summary large text: ( was printdescr )
• add_email bool: includes the private email on the print calendar.
• add_phone bool: includes the private email address on the print calendar.
• add_contact bool: includes private contact info on the print calendar.
• add_link bool: includes the public web link on the print calendar.

WEB:

Includes any off site links to websites or social accounts. ( Replaces 'weburl' and 'webname' )

• id ref: An arbitrary number of web entries can exist for a given ride series; although, currently we only support one. ( for website "url" )
• web_type string: ex. "url", could be "bluesky", or whatever.
• web_text string: A description of the link provided by the organizer.
• web_link string: ex. "https://example.come"

TAG:

• id ref: An arbitrary number of tags can exist for a given ride series.
• tag_name string: some examples below.
• tag_value string, or the string "true".

Maybe someday tags could be added directly by users. For now, these would be our built-in tags:

• audience: "General", "Family", "Adult"
• area: ex. "Portland", "Vancouver", etc.
• safety: the string "true", or doesn't exist and isn't covid friendly.
• featured: the string "true", some extra details, or doesn't exist and isn't featured.
• loop: the string "true", or doesn't exist and isn't a loop.
• distance: one of the exiting strings: "0-3", ..., "15+"

Maybe:

• pace ex. easy, steady, strenuous, etc. no drop?
• protest: "true", or doesn't exist and isn't a protest ride.

IMAGE:

for any rides with images; rationale: not all rides have images;

• id ref: At most one image can exist per ride series.
• img_version int: Exists for cache-busting. Incremented whenever a new image is uploaded.
• img_ext short string: The original file extension, lowercased.
• img_override string: For images that we maintainers have manually set to a specific file; used very rarely. Typically the image filename is the id.ext and this override string is blank.
• img_alt string: future idea. Organizer specified alt text for the image.

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Time Handling

The SERIES start_time and the SCHEDULE days are stored as strings, HH:DD and YYYY-MM-DD respectively. They are measured relative to organizer's time zone, not the server's time zone, nor utc. This is intended to avoid questions around the SCHEDULE(d) day of an east coast ride starting at 11:59 PM when stored on a west coast server.

Database created and modified times, however, are stored as TIMESTAMP(s) and are from the perspective of the server.