+1 On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:46:36 -0700, "Aparna Kadakia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I want to propose moving the "Restore Published Shares" out of the > tools menu > into the one of the main menu items like 'Share'. I find myself using > this > menu item very often and I hear so do others. > > Here are the different cases: > > 1. While Chandler release is under development, some of us who are > dogfooding > with the app find ourselves in the situation where Chandler crashes > and the > only path to recovery is restarting the app with a fresh repo. Since > Chandler > crashed without a warning, it took away the chance to back up the > repo. Using a > stale backup on new version of Chandler is not recommended based on the > various bugs we have seen in that area. For e.g. the office calendar > getting corrupted because people were reloading with older .chex files. > So resorting to "restoring published shares..." becomes the next best > available option. > > 2. Making your published shares discoverable from Chandler. Many a > times, I may > have published collections from my Chandler that I may have deleted > locally or may have > been lost (due to crash or whatever). This menu gives me a chance > to discover/recover my published shares. > > 3. Accessing the same published collection across different Chandlers > - While dogfooding, I access the PersonalAK collection from my home > machine as well as the office laptop. I don't have the latest .chex > file to reload from on my home machine so I just setup my sharing > account and selectively restore the PersonalAK collection to view the > events on it. > > 4. If all my collections are always shared then I can get away with > not having to > manually backup and reload my collections for every Chandler version. > > > Since this menu option is under tools, it sort of discourages good > day to day use and we are averse to fixing bugs in any menu item > under tools. > > I would like for us to evaluate if there is more support for bringing > this > feature in. > > Thanks > Aparna > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > > Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list > http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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