[Dev] Keeping Users' Data

[Lisa Dusseault]

On Feb 10, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> At 03:01 PM 2/10/2006 -0800, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
>> (3) In the 0.7 timeframe, we're going to have midpoints (maybe  
>> these are the same as milestones, full proposal coming) that the  
>> user can download and use. This implies that we need to support a  
>> path for users to migrate data from 0.6.1 --> 0.7m1, from 0.7m1 -- 
>> > 0.7m2, etc.
>
> And will .ics be a sufficiently high-fidelity format for these  
> transfers?

Well, iCalendar can be sufficiently high-fidelity, it's fully  
extensible.  You could put the whole repository in that format though  
I can't imagine why we'd want to export anything but calendar and  
task data to that format.   The reason we used iCalendar for  
migrating at all was because we already had the ability to export and  
import iCalendar and we scoped migrating requirements down to only  
calendar items.  I don't think there was much of an idea that we'd  
extend the use of iCalendar as a migration tool beyond calendar items  
and task items.

Perhaps I misunderstood the question..

Lisa