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

Ted Leung twl at osafoundation.org
Mon Jun 11 13:52:32 PDT 2007


In the interest of making sure that we all have the information that  
we need to make a good decision....

The overall timeline for preview can be found here: <http:// 
chandlerproject.org/Projects/PreviewReleaseCountdown>

The current feature complete date for Cosmo is June 25, so that's the  
date that we all need to be mindful of.

Ted

On Jun 11, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Travis Vachon wrote:

> Ok, thanks!
>
> Technically, given what I know about Atom and REST, these sound  
> like very good ideas. I'd like to become more familiar with all of  
> the concepts surrounding this stuff and I think I'm going to take  
> the afternoon to get myself to a point where I feel more capable of  
> evaluating them technically.
>
> From what I do understand, they sound fantastic, and exactly what  
> I'd love to be able to get into 0.7. Probably the best case  
> scenario in my mind would be to have them implemented on the server  
> in a way that is compatible with the current system, and have the  
> client use them when we get a chance schedule-wise. It very well  
> may turn out that the current protocol makes the ui unacceptably  
> slow for preview, in which case having a more efficient protocol  
> within 3-5 days of client side work could be a life saver.
>
> I'm going to spend the afternoon catching up on this background  
> stuff, and I'll try to get back with any further thoughts before  
> the end of the day!
>
> -Travis
>
> On Jun 11, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Brian Moseley wrote:
>
>> 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.
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