[Design] Alpha4 goals from sharing spec

[Brian Moseley]

On 7/12/06, Bobby Rullo <br at osafoundation.org> wrote:

> I do think the idea of being able to see everything in Chandler in
> Scooby is important, although I see some potential problems with your
> model. With what you proposed Cosmo syncs to subscribed collections
> on its own time, as does Chandler. They are both maintaining copies
> of the subscribed data individually.
>
> However, lots of what Chandler is about (I think!) is adding metadata
> to items in collections - stamping them, triaging them, tagging them.
> It might be tricky (not to say impossible!) to sync the metadata
> associated with these items since Cosmo and Chandler will be out of
> sync (with regards to subscribed collections) occasionally.
>
> I also feel like it's vaguely wrong to have both Cosmo and Chandler
> having to sync to stuff. Maybe all syncing happens through Cosmo? It
> can't all happen through Chandler, cuz then Scooby has to wait for
> Chandler to update it.

you're right.