366303 - ability to handle a calendar via subversion, for multi access use [extension fodder]

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: Provider: ICS/WebDAV, enhancement)

Description

[Elof Wecksell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061006 Sunbird/0.3

Subversions ability to merge ics files. This could already be done manually but somehow built-into sunbird, this would solve people using it on many computers, share calenders without overwriting posts.

Reproducible: Didn't try

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Comment 1

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Subversion's ability to merge text files is limited.  It (and other VCS) don't have the ability to check that the resulting .ICS from a merge is actually valid .ICS.  This sounds to me like a recipe for more problems than solutions.

Alternatively, you can enable Subversion's autocommit feature on a WebDAV server so that each post to the WebDAV server is kept atomically in your SVN repository.  I know of a few people that do this currently so as to be able to 'roll back' if there is a problem of some sort.

While this is an interesting idea, I don't think Subversion is the right tool to solve the "user A overwrote user B's calendar" problem, as it would end up creating invalid .ICS.

Nominating for INVALID unless folks can convince me otherwise.

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Stuff like that is definitely not what I would consider core functionality for Lightning or Sunbird. 

But an enhanced ics provider with subversion (or other vcs) support could definitely be shipped as an extension.

Marking WONTFIX based on this.