[Dev] Keeping Users' Data

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 05:50 PM 2/10/2006 -0800, Lisa Dusseault wrote:

>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..

I was asking was whether it was still suitable for calendar items in 0.7, 
not if you could migrate other kinds of items.