[Sugar-devel] new journal and datastore maintainer

[Martin Langhoff]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> I agree that an activity for repairing or recovering the DS would be
> quite beneficial, we'd need to add an exception for Rainbow though.

So Rainbow would prevent a regular activity from reading .sugar? I am
not familiar with how one goes about exceptions and such. I've
recently seen activities that do "out of the sandbox" things (Tony's
data manager, dsd's audio fixer...), don't know how...

Alternatively, a python script to run on the Terminal might help (but
an activity is much better, naturally)

> If we find the root cause and get a fix that seems to be worth
> deploying, can we deploy it to machines presently with 0.82?

We can offer the patch to deployers, and I can integrate it into a
build. But our reach is limited there. A user-deployable "repair" tool
is a lot more effective.

cheers,



m
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