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, 06:36, 14 July 2009add progress reports for past three weeks
=== 2009-06-16 ===
=== 2009-06-15 ===
Created [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/versionsupport-project/repos/mainline/trees/master/backends git VCS backend]. There's
Created [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/versionsupport-project/repos/mainline/trees/master/backends git VCS backend]. There's
Also need to choose how to save metadata - use the current journal format extended to save a separate entry per '''version''' (as in the prototype), but store the data in a VCS per '''object'''. Or move to a standard database like sqlite. As for data, crash recovery needs to be carefully considered.
Also need to choose how to save metadata - use the current journal format extended to save a separate entry per '''version''' (as in the prototype), but store the data in a VCS per '''object'''. Or move to a standard database like sqlite. As for data, crash recovery needs to be carefully considered.
=== 2009-06-29 ===
Worked on a [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/versionsupport-project/repos/mainline/blobs/master/datastore-redesign.html proposal] (follow "raw blob data" link) for a full redesign of the datastore that can store data in a VCS with delta compression support and has a well-defined, asynchronous, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID ACID] API (currently e.g. <code>activity_id</code> is used by Record in an unintended way because there's no real definition of it).
=== 2009-07-06 ===
Started changing current prototype to match the API for the proposed redesign. Lots of bugs in code written by other people (e.g. [http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1040 #1040], [http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1042 #1042] and [http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1053 #1053]) made testing and finding my own bugs quite hard.
The datastore part is more or less done, the API consumer part (Journal etc.) currently uses some compatibility wrappers and needs to be adapted to use the new API. I'll probably change from distinct <code>tree_id</code> / <code>version_id</code> parameters to a combined <code>object_id</code> one (using a tuple) while I'm at it.