Comment 13 for bug 399319

Very good points, and I would like to add another motivation for using raw files instead of structuring the data. If the Launchpad hardware database only relies on specific raw data, we could make sure that apport gathers that same data when reporting bugs. So, the hardware database could even start polling for bug reports instead of being limited to Checkbox submissions. This could potentially make the hardware database even greater!

The only problem I see is with the target element in questions. If devices are expressed as raw data, it is no longer possible to uniquely identify the related device based on a numeric reference. However, since questions should eventually disappear from the hardware database, perhaps this is not an issue. If we could adopt the schema you proposed in this bug shortly, could we consider removing the concept of questions at the same time?