[Cloudrunner]

I've read through this thread and still have a question regarding the DB, I can understand adding to and taking away from rows in the templates not being classified as a code mod, but how about when ALTERing a table, since that effectively changes the coding of the site?

for example, in my donations mod, there are two additions to the user table, donor and showdonor. Each are needed for the system to work, but since this required the use of an ALTER statement, thus changing the original coding of the installation, I would regarding this as a code modification.

IMHO, if the DB changes are merely additions to or removal of rows within a DB table, and do not effect the schema of the DB or the table, then I would consider this to be an extension, whereas if the table is modified using an ALTER statement, then it would be a code modification due to the fact that you are changing the original code for the default installation, which could lead to upgrade difficulties...