[Cosmo-dev] abbreviating content of entries in atom collections

[Brian Moseley]

On 6/11/07, Brian Moseley <bcm at osafoundation.org> wrote:

> anything we do is "risky", but we have to think about performance as
> well as schedule. i'd really rather evaluate these proposals on their
> technical merits first before we start worrying about schedule impact.
> i haven't made any claims as to how long they'd take to implement on
> the server, you'll notice.

let me clarify a few things about the proposals i've sent today:

1) they are not related in any substantial way to the idea i mentioned
on irc last week about getting rid of atom wholesale. i think that my
suggestion to use xhtml to represent subscriptions and preferences
linked these proposals back to that pie-in-the-sky conversation.
whoops.

2) they are suggestions for targeted improvements to my initial
protocol design that aren't required for preview even if they would
make our software work significantly better. i'd love to get them both
done before the end of june, especially the one that could save
significant bandwidth and processing time by cutting down the amount
of data in a collection feed, but if we don't have time, that's fine.

i'm just looking for technical feedback right now. if we judge a
proposal to be worthy, then we can discuss where it goes in the
schedule a little bit later.

sorry i didn't preface my initial messages as such.