[Sugar-devel] Feature Freeze exception request: Journal Sort

[Andrés Ambrois]

On Monday, August 23, 2010 02:12:38 pm Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 19:09, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 04:48:33PM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> >> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 01:08:30PM -0300, Andrés Ambrois wrote:
> >> > On Monday, August 23, 2010 04:25:48 am Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > - creation time will be always displayed as '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S' ? 
What
> >> > > about those countries where they expect the fields being ordered in a
> >> > > different way? (may be good to format the string in listview.py
> >> > > instead of in listmodel.py, so we keep UI decisions out from the
> >> > > model).
> >> >
> >> > I agree with that separation of concerns. In fact it was initially that 
way,
> >> > but the format is required by activities such as Etoys, that break 
unless we
> >> > use it. Other activities may also be depending on it, as it is 
documented in
> >> > [0].
> >>
> >> If are talking about UI representaion, then it is ok ("ago" format).
> >> About internal representaion, Andrés, for what readon we store ctime in 
ISO,
> >> what about int value (to keep it in the same format as timestamp)?
> >
> > Sorry, didn't see [0] (was thinking that we dind't expose any ctime
> > fields before), what about renaming ctime ds field and using int value.
> 
> Ttat sounds interesting.

If we rename it, all the activities that use it will need to be fixed. If we 
just create a new one with a different name, then we will have redundant 
metadata. 

The DS needs to expose ctime in the %Y-%m-%d format for activities such as 
Etoys anyway, so we might as well use that format on disk and spare us the 
conversion on each query.

As for localization, the journal part need to be correctly localized, but the 
format we expose in the DS service is part of the API, not a user-visible 
string. I would even say that it is easier to understand what you mean by 
'2010-08-23T14:51:14' than by 1282585874.0, almost everywhere in the world. A 
good argument for the float format is that it is easier to convert with the 
python library. 

> Regards,
> 
> Tomeu
> 
> > --
> > Aleksey
> >
> 

-- 
  -Andrés
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