[Dev] Keeping Users' Data

[Katie Capps Parlante]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes, I believe ics is suitable for calendar items in 0.7.

Cheers,
Katie