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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:24:32 +0000
To: Perforce Defect Tracking Integration Project staff <p4dti-staff@ravenbrook.com>
From: Richard Brooksby <rb@ravenbrook.com>
Subject: Case of state names
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This is a record of a design decision made by RB and GDR while 
working on automatic configuration generation from TeamTrack.

We decided that Perforce users should not see TeamTrack states like 
"Closed" and "CLOSED" as different states.  This might occur when two 
projects have different sets of state names with inconsistent cases, 
and both projects replicate to Perforce.

Instead, all TeamTrack state names are normalized to lower case in 
all internal data structures in the replicator.

This decision is applied consistently so that future developers of 
the replicator don't get confused when they get states from different 
maps.

This creates a limitation that case can't be used to distinguish 
states within a project in TeamTrack, because the replicator can't 
then deduce transitions from state changes in Perforce.

References to this document needs to be inserted in the sources where 
GDR has today written an approximate reference (to "Case of state 
names").