libical 2.0.0 release checklist

[Allen Winter]

On Monday, August 17, 2015 12:58:24 PM Ken Murchison wrote:
> After reading RFC 5545 again (section 3.3.11) I think the clients are to 
> blame for some of this.  It appears that commas are always supposed to 
> be escaped in TEXT values, unless the comma is splitting multiple 
> values.  Apple clearly isn't doing this in their X- property.
> 
> I'm thinking we should be liberal in what we except, meaning that for a 
> known single value property, we should accept both escaped and 
> un-escaped commas. In the case of a multi-valued property like 
> CATEGORIES, we should split on any un-escaped comma.  When outputting 
> iCalendar data we should follow the spec.
> 
I agree.
Will you work on this?


> 
> On 08/17/2015 11:31 AM, Kent Sutherland wrote:
> > The reason for the exception to X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION is because Apple isn't escaping commas in the property value. It looks like that could be related to #79 if RESOURCE shouldn't have escaped commas either, I didn't realize there were similar issues on other properties.
> >
> > Kent
> >
> >> On Aug 17, 2015, at 11:27 AM, Ken Murchison <murch at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 08/17/2015 11:16 AM, Allen Winter wrote:
> >>> Howdy,
> >>>
> >>> Here is my checklist for the 2.0.0 release:
> >>> * fix escaping commas in a CATEGORY (issue#77)
> >>> * fix escaping commas in a RESOURCE (issue#79)
> >> I was going to look into the whole multi-valued properties and comma stuff, hopefully soon.  It appears to be a mess.  I was actually thinking that maybe we could add a multi-valued flag to the design data, but that might be too big of a bite for this.
> >>
> >> I am wondering why we assume that an X- property can be multi-valued and therefore we have to make an exception for X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION.  It would seem to me that we should treat any X- property as a an opaque value.
> >>
> >>> * should we handle invalid characters in parameters nicely? (issue#121)
> >> Should we look at RFC 6638?
> >>
> >>
> >>> Anything else?
> >>>
> >>> I really want to get this thing released.  any and all help with the above appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> -Allen
> >>>
> >>>
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