[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Extending activity microformat spec to include optional olpc_activity_size

[Anish Mangal]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Sascha Silbe
<sascha-ml-reply-to-2010-3 at silbe.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Anish Mangal's message of Sat Nov 20 06:59:36 +0100 2010:
>
>
> Let's keep the discussion exclusively on sugar-devel, please.
> Cross-posting can cause thread fragmentation. I also don't see any
> value in discussing all Dextrose-related technical decisions on two
> lists in parallel.
> I've adjusted Mail-Followup-To accordingly, so if you use a proper MUA
> ( ;) ) Reply-to-all should do The Right Thing (i.e. drop the Dextrose
> list and me).
>
>

Gmail is my MUA. (I've dropped dextrose anyway)

>> Thus, I propose to include an optional 'olpc-activity-size' tag in the
>> microformat specification, so as to rid the world of extra http
>> requests. If anyone has any concerns or suggestions, please speak up
>> :-)
>
> How about adding checksums, too? That way you can verify file integrity
> and even download it using bittorrent (if an sha1 checksum is included).
> The format used by JHbuild seems like a good candidate:
>
> sha256:87cd3f708cb3d330f6d74931fd7488784f45b0f467f14e2dc6fbdc9d3df97189
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> olpc-activity-checksum should be optional and allowed multiple times.
>

Sounds like a good idea to me.

> Sascha
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-- 
Anish