Dear developers, initiated by Gerrit Change #750 [1], we stumbled upon gaps in the specification of the partial sharing feature (again).
The corresponding thesis (which is not available in an electronic format as of now) only covers the following use cases in the context of partial sharing: * Multiple ways of selecting the resources to be shared. * Starting a session with several resources, using an existing/a new project on the invitee's side. * Adding several resources to a running session, using an existing/a new project on the others' side. * Adding new files to the session as they are edited (needbased/quick-adding) But it lacks considerations concerning pre-existing files (in case the invitee wants to reuse an existing project) and the removal of files and folders. In detail: 1. Example. Situation before the session: Alice: P P/x P/x/a.txt P/x/c.txt P/y P/y/d.txt Bob: P P/x P/x/a.txt P/x/b.txt Alice selects folder "x" to invite Bob, who chooses to reuse his local project P. What should happen to Bob's a.txt? 2. Example. Situation before the session: Alice: P P/x P/x/a.txt P/x/c.txt Bob: P P/x P/x/b.txt Alice selects file a.txt to invite Bob, who chooses to reuse his local project P. Alice afterwards chooses to delete folder "x" -- what should happen on Bob's side: delete x and x/b.txt or keep them? What do you think? My proposals: 1. On the one hand, since Alice wants to work with the files she selects for transmission, allowing Bob to "protect" his file "a.txt" from overwriting is not an option -- either he reuses an existing project or create a new one. On the other hand, I am struggling thinking of a real-world scenario in which Alice and Bob really want to such a thing (maybe if "b.txt" is some file you would put under svn:ignore?). 2. Neither Alice nor Saros can possibly know what to with "b.txt" -- in Alice's case: she isn't even aware of that particular file. Therefore Bob is the only one to decide, so Saros needs to ask Bob for "assistance". I don't want to think about the required dialog right now -- this is about the idea in general. Any comments? Franz [1] http://saros-build.imp.fu-berlin.de/gerrit/750 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ DPP-Devel mailing list DPP-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dpp-devel
