[General] Re: Update and Questions re: Known Issues

[Philippe Bossut]

Hi,

Mimi Yin wrote:
> I have taken over pulling together the Known Issues. This is what I 
> have thus far: http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/KnownIssues
>
> There is still a lot of work to be done, but I have some questions to 
> answer before I can proceed any further.
>
> *DESKTOP*
> Sheila nominated a number of Desktop bugs to remove from the known 
> issues list, even though they had been tagged with the relnote 
> keyword. *Philippe,* please review the bugs in the NIX list and advise 
> as to how these should be dealt with.
See my detailed comments inline below
> I'm also assuming that bugs that have been marked as FIXED or 
> WORKSFORME should not be included on the known issues page.
Agree. I checked them rapidly (only 23 of those) and see no reason to 
mention any of them.
> ===
>
> *BUGS TO REMOVE FROM DESKTOP KNOWN ISSUES*
> NIX
>    * Bug#2497 - Send' doesn't change to 'Send to New' when you add 
> invitees to a shared collection
>       * Mimi do you even want to mention this?

We actually do not support the "send only to new addressees" feature yet 
so I don't think it's worth relnoting as most email clients don't 
support this either.

>    * Bug#1237 - Block Demo: Controls view popup menu is empty
>       * I don't think we even have this menu item anymore do we? It 
> was closed as won't fix but I didn't know why it was relnoted.

It was relnote for 0.6, at a time we had that menu item. Don't need to 
relnote now for sure.

>    * Bug#9478 - "Mailbox does not exist" message on syncing mail into 
> Chandler
>       * This bug was resolved but I think there is still some user 
> issue that they might run into this. I don't quite understand if it's 
> simply an artifact of using the old ini files and people won't 
> realistically run into it anymore. I put in on the list for us to talk 
> about since I wasn't sure if it was worth logging.  
See bkirsch's answer on that one.
> * Bug#7185 - Mailcap file /etc/mailcap, line 40: incomplete entry 
> ignored. when opening XRC dialog
>       * Resolved invalid...not sure if we want to relnote

Heikki marked that as relnote worthy but I wonder why. It's unlikely to 
annoy much users.

>    * Bug#8231 - Unified strategy for dealing with prompts and warnings
>       * I don't remember why we relnoted this
I remember marking it relnote: the problem is for users who want to use 
Chandler without email, they get nagged with messages because of the 
default accounts being created. Workaround: for those who want to use a 
Chandler without email, simply delete
the empty OOTB accounts and the nagging dialog will disappear. This 
workaround need to be added to the relnote and/or known issue list.
>    * Bug#9046 - Sharing Error when using Restore Settings to upgrade 
> from Alpha 4 for Trunk
>        * This was closed and addressed with better migration 
> instructions. I am assuming we don't need to do anything else.

We need to relnote to early adopters that they may want to edit their 
ini files to avoid problems. I think the whole change of sharing address 
scheme is worthy of a relnote.

>    * Bug#7158 - Sharing should catch Zanshin exception instead of 
> outputting a Traceback
>        * Closed as won't fix
Yup, no need to relnote that one.
>
> (Explain in Get Started Guide instead)
>    * Bug#9342 - Can't send email to non-osaf accounts
>       * This is not a bug but I didn't know I had to check 
> authentication. We should probably put this in the FAQ, GetStarted 
> Guide...not sure where.

Agree with mentioning in the FAQ in a "I can sent email, what's 
happening?" section, may be in the Guide as part of the "Setting up 
accounts" section.

Cheers,
- Philippe