[Dev] Data Model Issues Meeting

[Brian Douglas Skinner]

Thanks Katie,

I just went and added a few paragraphs with additional notes about 
Aliases, inverseAttributes, and structs that could contain item references:
http://wiki.o11n.org/twiki/bin/view/Chandler/ApplicationDataModelOpenIssues

:) Brian



Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
> Hi Ted and Andi,
> 
> I have a writeup of data model open issues, from the apps team's recent 
> experience: 
> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/twiki/bin/view/Chandler/ApplicationDataModelOpenIssues 
> 
> 
> I didn't structure it into Ted's two categories, although I think that's 
> a great way of looking at it. I was more focused on just collecting our 
> recent experience, and writing down the history of how/why some 
> decisions were made. You can take that input and structure the issues as 
> you like for the meeting. I've also included a lot of parcel issues, 
> because it was at times hard to discuss one without the other.
> 
> We can leave some of these issues for seperate meetings, including the 
> threading issue.
> 
> Discussion of these issues might be best in email on the dev list (apart 
> from the meeting). Folks can add issues or comments to the wiki page, 
> but I'm not expecting it to continue to be "live" much after the meeting 
> tomorrow.
> 
> Cheers,
> Katie
> 
> Ted Leung wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> One of the things that we need to do for the 0.4 release is take stock 
>> of where we are with the Data Model implemented by the Chandler 
>> repository, and make any changes that are needed.  To get things 
>> going, I'd like to have a meeting on Thursday, March 11th to get 
>> started.  3pm has been suggested as a good time. (As an experiment in 
>> calendaring, I've made my iCal work calendar available here: 
>> http://www.sauria.com/~twl/calendars/Work.ics)
>>
>> The OSAF staff that need to be in the meeting are (this is also an 
>> experiment in being more public about meetings):
>> Ted Leung (moderator)
>> Andi Vajda
>> John Anderson
>> Morgen Sagen
>> Katie Parlante
>>
>> If I've left off anyone who should be included please let me know.  
>> Also, could someone please arrange for a meeting room for people on site?
>>
>> I think that there are two categories of issues:
>>
>> 1. Issues with the Abstract/Conceptual data model.  An example would 
>> be "are we actually using Alias types"
>> 2. Issues with the implementation of the data model.  An example would 
>> be "the API for Lob derived types" is unwieldy.
>>
>> To get things started off, here is my list of issues:
>>
>> Type 1:
>> 1. Aliases - usage cases
>> 2. Structs - usage cases
>> 3. List vs dict ref collections - resolve the status
>>
>> Type 2:
>> 1. How are line endings stored in strings used in the repository?  Is 
>> this an issue for portable (cross platform) repository files? (Is this 
>> a goal?)
>> 2. I would like to see us make the LOB API easier to use, especially 
>> for Text.
>> 3. List ref collections are not indexable (no random access that isn't 
>> O(n))
>>
>> Please reply with a note containing your issues.  I'll try to collate 
>> everything before the meeting, and either mail it out or put it on the 
>> wiki.   The meeting notes will go up on the wiki afterwards.
>>
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