Ubuntu One Symlinks and User-Designated Folders
Currently, Ubuntu One doesn't handle symlinks nor user-designated folders (UDFs). We propose to start synchronizing symlinks as symlinks (not following them), and handling UDFs independently (via the client app).
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Lucio Torre
- Priority:
- High
- Drafter:
- Ubuntu One hackers
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Lucio Torre
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for lucid
- Implementation:
-
Not started
- Milestone target:
-
ubuntu-10.04-beta-1
- Started by
- Completed by
Related branches
- lp:~nataliabidart/ubuntuone-storage-protocol/add-udf-messages
- lp:~nataliabidart/ubuntuone-client/add-udf-events-to-action-queue
- lp:~nataliabidart/ubuntuone-client/add-main-to-aq-creation
- lp:~nataliabidart/ubuntuone-client/filter-events-for-unsubscribed-volumes
- lp:~nataliabidart/ubuntuone-client/add-udf-to-local-rescan
- lp:~verterok/ubuntuone-client/udf-autosubscribe-config
- lp:~verterok/ubuntuone-client/volumemanager_udfs
- lp:~verterok/ubuntuone-client/udf-dbus-api
- lp:~verterok/ubuntuone-client/vm_udf_subscribe_events
- lp:~verterok/ubuntuone-client/vm_and_aq
- lp:~verterok/ubuntuone-client/volumes_for_LR
- lp:~verterok/ubuntuone-client/vm-scan_udf_on_subscribe
- lp:~nataliabidart/ubuntuone-client/watch-udf-parent
- lp:~verterok/ubuntuone-client/udf-normpath
- lp:~nataliabidart/ubuntuone-client/unsubscribe-udf-if-broken-path
- lp:~nataliabidart/ubuntuone-client/remove-asserts
- lp:~nataliabidart/ubuntuone-client/remove-watches-even-on-rename
Related bugs
Whiteboard
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Work items for lucid-alpha-3:
[verterok] DBus API documentation, autogenerate it: DONE
[verterok] Define new DBus API, discuss with Desktop, make them agree, test cases, code it: DONE
[nataliabidart] Use new messages from AQ (update EQ): DONE
[verterok] Handle new AQ events in DBus interface for the new messages: DONE
[nataliabidart] Support watches over UDFs: implement logic in EQ to know when the user breaks the UDF path to unsubscribe it. No test cases in Ubunet: DONE
[nataliabidart] Support watches over UDFs: change LR to add watches to UDFs parent. No test cases in Ubunet: DONE
[nataliabidart] Make AQ filter events from volumes that client is not subscribed to: DONE
[verterok] Implement the volume handling in VolumeManager: DONE
[nataliabidart] Add a new "volume" attribute to the StorageObject table and to the Shares table: DONE
[facundo] Create UDFs table: DONE
[facundo] Modify model.py and controller.py to use the new volume attribute (and change make_root, and all the stuff for which shareid previously was "" or a *share* id.): DONE
[nataliabidart] Add new messages to the protocol definition and protocol client: DONE
[facundo] Modify server.py and content.py to implement the new protocol messages, with a new capability: DONE
[verterok] refactor Share and UDF into Volume in VolumeManager: DONE
[verterok] add config option to en/disable UDFs "autosubscribe" : DONE
[verterok] Add DBus API to change UDFs "autosubscribe" config: DONE
[nataliabidart] Integration tests: DONE
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NOTES from UDS
* Synchronize everything under ~/Ubuntu One and don't follow symlinks.
* when syncing symlinks, dont do anything special about them
* Allow users to define folders under their home directory that are
sync'd to Ubuntu One
* The current Ubuntu One folder will be configured by default
* These folders will be synchronized to the same location relative to
their home folder
* How will these folders appear in the web UI?
* Shared Folders will still appear inside ~/Ubuntu One/Shared With Me/
* In the U1 Control Panel, display all Ubuntu One folders with the
ability to disable syncing a folder for this machine
* when a machine is authorized, show the control panel or allow the
user to go there before starting to download files
* much more value in UDFs than symlinks
