Data sent to OpenERP/oodo

as well as this Bahmni wiki video shows to add the column in res.partner.attributes but was it not suppose to store as <name, value> pair? At least it used to store it in <name, value> pair without making changes in res.partner.attributes

in the version that I had installed -

Is this a design change or just a bug in the current version which is not syncing any of the attributes at all?