[Design] "restore published shares.." menu option

[Andre Mueninghoff]

+1

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:46:36 -0700, "Aparna Kadakia"
<aparna at osafoundation.org> said:
> 
> I want to propose moving the "Restore Published Shares" out of the  
> tools menu
> into the one of the main menu items like 'Share'. I find myself using  
> this
> menu item very often and I hear so do others.
> 
> Here are the different cases:
> 
> 1. While Chandler release is under development, some of us who are  
> dogfooding
> with the app find ourselves in the situation where Chandler crashes  
> and the
> only path to recovery is restarting the app with a fresh repo. Since  
> Chandler
> crashed without a warning, it took away the chance to back up the  
> repo. Using a
> stale backup on  new version of Chandler is not recommended based on the
> various bugs we have seen in that area. For e.g. the office calendar  
> getting corrupted because people were reloading with older .chex files.
> So resorting to "restoring published shares..." becomes the next best  
> available option.
> 
> 2. Making your published shares discoverable from Chandler. Many a  
> times, I may
> have published collections from my Chandler that I may have deleted  
> locally or may have
> been lost (due to crash or whatever). This menu gives me a chance
> to discover/recover my published shares.
> 
> 3. Accessing the same published collection across different Chandlers  
> - While dogfooding, I access the PersonalAK collection from my home  
> machine as well as the office laptop.  I don't have the latest .chex  
> file to reload from on my home machine so I just setup my sharing  
> account and selectively restore the PersonalAK collection to view the  
> events on it.
> 
> 4. If all my collections are always shared then I can get away with  
> not having to
> manually backup and reload my collections for every Chandler version.
> 
> 
> Since this menu option is under tools, it sort of discourages good  
> day to day use and we are averse to fixing bugs in any menu item  
> under tools.
> 
> I would like for us to evaluate if there is more support for bringing  
> this
> feature in.
> 
> Thanks
> Aparna
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