Re: Remember the Milk

["Kevin Kubasik" <kevin kubasik net>]

I was under the impression Nick was going to be taking lead on this.
If he doesn't have time, I can find time to work on it at some point.

2008/5/26 Nick Marshall <nmarshall23 gmail com>:
> John,
>
> I am sorry I haven't had much time to work on this. I plan on spending
> some time on it tomorrow and Wednesday.
>
> Nick
>
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 7:35 AM, John Stowers <john stowers gmail com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:54 PM, John Stowers <john stowers gmail com> wrote:
>>> 2008/4/11 Kevin Kubasik <kevin kubasik net>:
>>>> Initial work is up here
>>>>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510108 almost at the point
>>>>  of being a workable source, but I chose to start by gunning for 2way
>>>>  with this one. (bad call)
>>>>
>>>>  Anyways, this was an experiment-oriented project, and served me well
>>>>  as far as learning more of the guts of Conduit and how it functionally
>>>>  does things (or doesn't in this case). Lemme know what your workign on
>>>>  specifically so if I get some free time we done duplicate ;)
>>>
>>> I committed the above patch to make it easier for you guys to work
>>> together on this.
>>>  * If you end up improving pyrtm so much to make it useful we can
>>> release it as an external library, or keep it in tree.
>>>  * Also, remember to add a test for any work you do.
>>>  * put() is the hardest function for two way. See
>>> http://www.conduit-project.org/wiki/WritingADataProvider/GeneralPutInstructions
>>> for the recommended implementation
>>>
>>> Some quick comments (from the bug)
>>>
>>>> problems understanding the differences between UIDs, URI's, and LUID's wrt
>>>> conduit,
>>>
>>> data UID (sometimes called LUID) = the unique representation RTM uses
>>> to store the data. The point is that is need only be locally unique,
>>> that is unique within RTM for some set of criteria. It need not be
>>> globally unique because it is in effect 'namespaced' within the UID of
>>> the dataprovider
>>> dataprovider UID = This forms the namespace part of the data storage.
>>> A dataproviders UID should encompass that information which describes
>>> its unique configuration such that if two dataprovider are congigured
>>> identically, they should have the same UID.
>>>
>>> Therefor:
>>> data LUID + dataprovider UID = Globally unique identifier for a bit of data.
>>>
>>> Having a UID for the dataprovider and the data is necessary because
>>> not all dataproviders allow us to attach arbitary generated GUIDs to
>>> data we touch. It is also necessary to have two identically configured
>>> dataproviders have the same UID so that we can detect when something
>>> is deleted.
>>>
>>> The URI is just a conveniece, and is used in comparison. ITs just a
>>> URI that can be opened to allow the user to compare the data they are
>>> talking about. Not all data has a URI, and often the datas URI is
>>> different to its UID. For example the UID for a flickr data is some
>>> random string, while its URI is (should be?) that photos page on
>>> flickr.
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> Has there been any progress on remember the milk?
>>
>> John
>>
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>
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