[Sugar-devel] journal maintenance (was Re: [RFC PATCH v0 0/8] Journal sorting by file size and creation time.)

[Aleksey Lim]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:01:53PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 07:14, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:33:48PM -0300, Andrés Ambrois wrote:
> >> This patchset implements sorting in the Journal UI as described in [0].
> >>
> >> This feature was requested in [1] and sponsored by Activity Central [2].
> >>
> >> Sorting by filesize is vital in the field where users need to free up disk
> >> space. Currently, the only way to find candidates for deletion is to access
> >> the expanded view of each entry, one by one. This can be a very time consuming
> >> process and often leads to indiscriminate deletion and thus potential loss of
> >> valuable data. This is bad.
> >>
> >> Sorting by creation time (ctime) is also implemented as described in the Design
> >> Proposal.
> >>
> >> This implementation currently lacks two aspects which I hope will be sorted out
> >> in the review process:
> >>
> >> 1- The proposal does not include a specification for changing the order of the
> >> sort. This patch assumes an ascending order.
> >>
> >> 2- There are no icons for the sorting criteria. Or at least I couldn't find the
> >> ones presented in the proposal. I'm sure someone from the design team could
> >> vectorize the ones there.
> >>
> >> v0: Initial submission to sugar-devel
> >
> > As current datastore and journal maintainer, some points:
> >
> > I'm still not sure will ml path proposal scheme work on not, it removes
> > some bugs.sl.o issues but adds new e.g. it is pretty hard to collaborate
> > (in my mind) via ml history, in case of bugs.sl.o, someone can just
> > share http link to complicated query. Other thing is that on bugs.sl.o
> > it is easy to query tickets by keywords for example.
> >
> > And since having patches both on bugs.sl.o and ml is pretty useless and
> > there is no regular way to attach "0.90 targeted" keyword to ml posts,
> > please create tickets on bugs.sl.o.
> >
> > In case of journal, my strong thinking is that Journal shouldn't be only
> > one for all purposes and it shouldn't be only in glucose as part of
> > sugar core. I initiated journal library [3]. The major idea is that
> > anyone can create his own journal activity and glucose can provide
> > common/simple/default one.
> >
> > So, all my resources I spend to journal library (and related projects)
> > not to journal code in glucose.
> 
> Btw, it's a bit awkward that the official journal maintainer says it
> won't dedicate time to it any more.

Yeah, thats right

> Should we consider the existing journal officially unmaintained and
> look for candidates?

In fact I'm sure maintainer should have some vision about how project
should grow, w/o such vision maintainer should pass his responsibility.
In my case, I have such vision but it's incompatible with existed scheme
(journal is only particular case) and will be lucky to pass Journal.

And so (with exception that I don't have any ideas how it should grow) for
datastore (note for future dev team leader), in mind Sascha is more
appropriate candidate for datastore maintainer since having his ds
versioning work in 0.90 release cycle will be really great.

Of course it's all about applying patches not about submitting, I'll do
my best to fix bugs in existed code.

> Regards,
> 
> Tomeu
> 
> > If you share this thinking, please come
> > aboard.
> >
> > Having covered all the above, I thing only datastore patch is requested.
> >
> > [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Services/Journal
> >
> >>
> >> [0] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Journal#Extended_list_view_palette
> >> [1] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1915
> >> [2] http://activitycentral.org
> >>
> >> Andrés Ambrois (8):
> >>   Journal: Retrieve ctime and filesize from the datastore.
> >>   Add ctime and filesize columns to the journal list model.
> >>   Add add_separator method for convenience.
> >>   Add a ListViewButton to the journal search toolbar.
> >>   Rename the date column to 'sort_column'
> >>   Add sort_by method to the journal list view.
> >>   Call sort_by in the list view when sorting is selected in the
> >>     toolbar.
> >>   Expandedentry: Try to use the filesize property.
> >>
> >>  src/jarabe/journal/expandedentry.py   |    5 +-
> >>  src/jarabe/journal/journalactivity.py |    5 ++
> >>  src/jarabe/journal/journaltoolbox.py  |   75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >>  src/jarabe/journal/listmodel.py       |   22 +++++++---
> >>  src/jarabe/journal/listview.py        |   34 ++++++++++-----
> >>  src/jarabe/journal/model.py           |    6 +-
> >>  6 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> >>
> >
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-- 
Aleksey