#4663 BLOC Update.: Connect: doesn't get into a consistent state on joining

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#4663: Connect: doesn't get into a consistent state on joining
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  Reporter:  smcv              |       Owner:  morgs        
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  new          
  Priority:  blocker           |   Milestone:  Update.1     
 Component:  connect-activity  |     Version:               
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:  collaboration
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Changes (by smcv):

 * cc: ApprovalForUpdate (added)


Comment:

 (cc'ing ApprovalForUpdate as a proxy for "Jim, Kim and Walter" - hopefully
 its email goes somewhere useful?)

 What is Connect doing as an Update.1 candidate in the first place? It's a
 demo of Tubes functionality, and is maintained as such. We don't have the
 resources to maintain it as a user-friendly activity with features and UI
 (its maintainer is "morgs whenever he isn't working on PS and Sugar") so
 if you want it in a state where it can be shipped to children, I think
 someone else from laptop.org will have to take on maintenance.

 We should definitely fix this bug, because Connect is an example activity
 whose correctness developers rely on, but I don't think Connect should be
 shipped to the children, who will be frustrated and confused by bugs like:

 http://dev.laptop.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component
 =connect-
 activity&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component

 In my view, the ideal situation would be that Connect remains on Joyride
 images (because it makes a useful smoke-test for Tubes, with no external
 dependencies) but never propagates to Update.1, or perhaps that it
 propagates to Update.1 but is removed shortly before release.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4663#comment:4>
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