[Owncloud] Help with the bug tracker - fix for oc-1586

[MJ Ray]

Klaas Freitag <freitag at owncloud.com>
> On 15.10.2012 18:48, MJ Ray wrote:
> > I suggest making the time detection depend on the directory size.
> > Here's a patch: http://paste.koha-community.org/221
> Sorry, but I do not understand that patch. Can you explain why you think 
> that the accepted delta of the time difference should be a function of 
> the amount of received results so far?
> 
> I am sure it works, because the accepted time difference grows 
> obviously, but that does not seem to solve the real problem imo.

What is the real problem?  I think it's that the server response time
is proportional to the number of results, while csync is applying an
arbitrary constant threshold, so it works for folders with few files
and fails on large ones, resulting in bug oc-1586.  So I make the
accepted time difference a function of the number of results.  What
other approach is there?

I'm open to suggestions for a better function or another approach, but
that one worked for me.

> > Could someone register me for the bug genie so I can offer the patch
> > there, please?
> >
> > Unsurprisingly to me, I cannot pass the eyetest on the registration
> > form.  It's a bit disappointing that owncloud discriminates against
> > people with imperfect eyesight, but it's not the first site to do so.
> We discriminate here by mistake, and I like to apologize for that. But 
> obviously bug genie is by far not so genius as we would like it to be so 
> I think there will be a change soon.

I'm asking the upstream developers to change and they sound receptive,
but for now could someone register for owncloud's one for me?

I'll also send a git pull request like someone else suggested, once
I've uploaded it somewhere.

Thanks,
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