[OGo-Developer] Re: additional field for synchronizatin

[Wolfgang Sourdeau]

On 2007-08-23 16:20:29 -0500 Helge Hess <helge.hess@opengroupware.org> 
wrote:

> On 23.08.2007, at 21:41, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote:
>> Yes, you can have hundreds of updates in a second, but you'd have  
>> to be a 
>> cyborg to be able to do it on the same single event that  belongs to 
>> you...
> 
> Exactly, I was talking about a (automatic!) sync process, this can  
> push 
> hundreds of changes in a second (the likeliness of a conflict  
> increases 
> dramatically). Of course this matters less for private  folders, but 
> for 
> shared ones it does! (IMHO the whole point for  groupware ;-) 
> Especially if 
> the folders are supposed to scale the  issue becomes more and more 
> important. 
> A single user can push a 100  changes to a shared folders which 
> others may 
> not see due to the 1s  granularity of the timestamp.

The chances that 2 users modify the same event (for exmaple, one 
change the start hour and the other deletes it) are really close to 
0.0000001%. So I would not worry about that at all.

Actually I wonder if you understand that we are talking of one field 
for each single event or task...


W.