304465 - bogus events should be reported to system console on construction

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: Internal Components, defect)

Description

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

When reading in a calendar that contains bogus events (eg end-time before
start-time), these events should be reported to the console using
Components.utils.reportError.  Conceivably the user could be prompted about what
to do with such events.  Without a prompt, though, we should preserve them in
the interest of not losing extant (though corrupt) data.

Comment 1

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

Unfortunately, I do not have cycles to work on Calendar stuff these days (just as it's getting to the good part!), so I am a bad owner for these bugs.  To delete the tragically-large chunk of bugspam, search for gregorianabdication.

Comment 2

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

We already report unparseable events on the error console, not sure how we handle parseable but wrong events (i.e end before start date) though. Given we have a few bugs open on the activitiy manager, maybe we can close this bug? Or should we create a calendar activity manager tracker metabug and make all these bugs block it?