[Chandler-dev] Checking background sync into the trunk [Poll]

[Morgen Sagen]

Good point -- sharing of already-stamped items works fine.  It's only  
a problem if an already-shared item is then stamped and synced.  I  
won't land bgsync until I have made sure that running into this  
problem at least fails gracefully.

On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote:

> I understand that "stamping of shared items" won't work but will  
> "sharing of stamped items" will? I do have quite a bit of those  
> and, if I can't use sync for a while because of that, I'd like to  
> know.
>
> BTW, the office shared calendar does contain events that are  
> stamped as email (done when sending invites). Does this means we  
> won't be able to sync the Office calendar?
>
> Cheers,
> - Philippe
>
> Morgen Sagen wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 6, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
>>
>>> I'm in favor of #1
>>>    + background sync is currently our highest priority for alpha3
>>>    + we've found so far that finding the bugs and making  
>>> reproducible test cases to be the time consuming part, and fixing  
>>> bugs goes more quickly, so I'd like to see us invest more time as  
>>> a team in finding bugs
>>>    + if we shake out problems earlier we can make a better  
>>> assessment for the schedule, which helps with other planning  
>>> decisions
>>>
>>> Morgen, could you elaborate on the consequences of stamping/ 
>>> sharing not working correctly in the interim? Does it fail  
>>> gracefully?
>>
>> At the moment, it's not quite graceful: the sidebar would indicate  
>> an error (via the exclamation icon), a stack trace would appear in  
>> chandler.log, but each sync of that collection would fail  
>> (although other collections would not be affected -- they would  
>> continue to sync).  I'm currently looking at how to better recover  
>> from this state, aside from deleting the local collection and re- 
>> subscribing.
>>
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