[proposal] Adds a data/ directory under .gitignore

[karlcow]

Should we have a data/ directory where we stash things like

• issues.db
• sessions.db
• Any other data useful for running webcompat.com but not part of the commits. (I'm thinking about the cache type-media list).

(Updated on August 17, 2017)

• Create a data/ directory
• Add a DATA_PATH in the config file
• Check in the code where we rely on session.db and topsites*.db adjust the paths (@MDTsai)
• Add data/ to .gitignore
• Move topsites*.db and session.db (erase probably)

[miketaylr]

Sounds good to me @karlcow. I also think we should just remove isuses.db entirely since it's dead code. But +1 to having a .gitignore'd data directory.

[karlcow]

• The issues.db code Remove (or use?) issues.db #1719 is being removed by Fixes #1719 - Removes unused issues.db from the code #1720 PR.
• Adding information in the first comment of that issue for the data/

[karlcow]

I will also need this data/ for domain names feeds in #132

[karlcow]

For example:

diff --git a/config/environment.py b/config/environment.py
index 1359c64..275f4b3 100644
--- a/config/environment.py
+++ b/config/environment.py
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import os
 
 # Define the application base directory
 BASE_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), os.pardir))
+DATA_PATH = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'data')
+FEED_PATH = os.path.join(DATA_PATH, 'feed')
 
 # the PRODUCTION and DEVELOPMENT environment variables are set in uwsgi.conf
 # on the webcompat server. If they're not set, they will default to None

[miketaylr]

decision: let's do it!

[karlcow]

Reminder: people will need to clean up their project root.