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

[Philippe Bossut]

Ok, +1 on #1 then: I think I can live without stamping shared items for 
a couple of weeks.
Cheers,
- Philippe

Morgen Sagen wrote:
> 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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