[db-wg] NWI-2 Displaying history for database objects where available

Colleagues

The DB WG co-chairs would now like to address this issue. There was
some discussion on the mailing list in May to July of 2016.

In brief the issue is that the current history mechanism has an
arbitrary design constraint that only the history of currently
existing objects can be seen. This may also not be complete if the
object has been deleted and re-created.

The problem definition has not yet been finalised. Also there was some
discussion about the reasons for wanting more historical information
being made available for resource objects (and possibly some other
object types).

We would therefore like to ask anyone with concerns about historical
data to please review what was said last year and express support or
otherwise and perhaps add some reasoning as to why more data is
needed.

cheers
denis
co-chair DB WG