[Chandler-dev] platform team update

[Grant Baillie]

On 30 Aug, 2006, at 15:07, Morgen Sagen wrote:

>
> On Aug 30, 2006, at 9:53 AM, Grant Baillie wrote:
>
>>
>> On 28 Aug, 2006, at 10:42, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
>>
>>> Notes from the most recent platform team meeting:
>>> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/PlatformMtg20060822
>>>
>>> Highlights:
>>>
>>> + The platform team will take ownership of Ashkan's event logger  
>>> project when his internship ends (Grant or Morgen).
>>>
>>> + Grant's stamping-as-annotations project will land in α4.  
>>> Progress is going well; he has many unit tests passing and the UI  
>>> up and running.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> + Morgen's sharing format changes and PJE's dump/reload features  
>>> won't land in α4, the current target is α5.
>>
>> Collectively, these two imply that α4 will probably break  
>> compatibility of sharing with α3 (I mean compatibility of xml- 
>> based .chandler shares, not iCalendar/CalDAV). Is this OK? If not,  
>> we could the sharing code to map stamp attributes onto the old  
>> values: I'm not sure how much work this would be.
>
> Grant, with the move to stamping-as-annotations, are the attributes  
> in the domain model actually changing?   If not, then α4 should be  
> compatible with α3 shares.

Well, at the very least, the attribute names have changed, e.g.  
'startTime' is now 'osaf.calendar.EventStamp.startTime'. Also,  
stamped items would no longer have multiple Kinds, and those are  
stored in the xml, so some kind of translation would have to happen  
there, too.

--Grant