[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Journal detail view: don't choke on invalid 'keep' property, [PATCH sugar-datastore] Ensure we return valid internal / calculated properties

[Sascha Silbe]

Excerpts from Sascha Silbe's message of 2011-11-02 23:28:28 +0100:

[sugar patch]
> Properties of data store entries can get corrupted, e.g. due to low level
> crashes or running out of battery (see OLPC#11372 [1] for a real-life
> example). In addition any activity can - accidentally or on purpose - write
> data store entries with arbitrary metadata.
[...]

[sugar-datastore patch]
> The copy in the metadata storage can get corrupted, e.g. due to low level
> crashes or running out of battery (see OLPC#11372 [1] for a real-life
> example).
[...]

Ping. These two patches [1,2] are important bug fixes. Without them,
Sugar can be left crippled after a system crash.

Sascha

[1] https://patchwork.sugarlabs.org/patch/1032/
[2] https://patchwork.sugarlabs.org/patch/1033/
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