Features/Sugar Bundles
Summary
One file format to transfer various types of content in/out to/from sugar environment with keeping metadata.
Owner
- Name: Aleksey Lim
- Email: send an email
Current status
- Targeted release: 0.88
- Last updated: Wed Nov 25 18:10:45 UTC 2009
- Percentage of completion: 0%
Detailed Description
In fact, this feature is an end users oriented(technically we not invent super format for various types of content, just unified sugar wrapper). Users all time know that there is only one type of sugar objects, they see it as a Journal item, one file with suffix .xo in non-sugar environments etc. So they need only upload this file to Journal and click to activate it.
At present we have several file types that user can encounter out of sugar:
- activity bundles(.xo)
- content bundles(.xol)
- journal bundles(.xoj)
All these files have different suffixes and after uploading to Journal have different behaviour.
Benefit to Sugar
Out of sugar environment, users know that there is only one type of sugar objects and only thing they should do to activate them is uploading .xo file to Journal and click it.
So if one user uploaded Journal object(any type - activity, activity object, content library etc.) to the web, another user can download/transfer-through-many-non-sugar-environments it and open in his sugar environment with keeping all metadata(he will get the same Journal entry).
Scope
How To Test
User Experience
Since we have only one type of sugar objects, user all time knows that if there is a file with suffix .xo he can download/open-in-journal it and need only click to activate it in sugar.
Dependencies
Nothing except existed sucrose dependencies.
Contingency Plan
None necessary, revert to previous release behaviour.
Documentation
Release Notes
The Sugar Release Notes inform end-users about what is new in the release. An Example is 0.84/Notes. The release notes also help users know how to deal with platform changes such as ABIs/APIs, configuration or data file formats, or upgrade concerns. If there are any such changes involved in this feature, indicate them here. You can also link to upstream documentation if it satisfies this need. This information forms the basis of the release notes edited by the release team and shipped with the release.