Jean-Luc Makiola
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The vendored dmfs provider was kept on the grounds that it hands us the sync bookkeeping for free. The phase-1 sync audit measured that bookkeeping and found most of it broken, absent, or unusable: _DIRTY not set on delete, no home for a per-collection sync token, read-only collections inexpressible, ACCOUNT_TYPE write-once so enabling sync is a full migration, and cleanUpLists able to delete a user's lists after a backup restore. Sixteen findings are provider-imposed rather than platform- or protocol-imposed. Costing the alternative showed the swap is far smaller than assumed. TasksDataSource is already a 14-method, domain-shaped interface; exactly one file above the data layer references TasksContract. The work is a second implementation behind an interface built for it, not a rewrite. Against ~5 weeks to build, owning the store removes 2.5-4 weeks from the sync plan, and 8,200 of the vendored 14,555 lines are things we would never write - 23 migrations from a 2013 schema, 798 lines of full-text search the app has zero call sites for, and 1,581 lines of a type-safe layer over ContentValues that Room deletes. External mode (OpenTasks, tasks.org) is unaffected and keeps every file that describes somebody else's schema. STORAGE-DECISION.md is the reasoning; OWN-STORE.md is the architecture and the six-phase plan. :provider stays in-tree until phase 5 so recurrence parity can be tested against it before it goes. Also corrected here: the provider's JVM test count (51 -> 56, measured from the test-results XML) and a fourth site of the debunked "switching sync on is never a migration" claim, in StorageMode.kt. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Agendula — documentation
Agendula is a Material 3 Expressive task app for Android. It carries its
own task store — the dmfs task provider vendored under our own authority — so
it is complete and local-first with nothing else installed; an external provider
(OpenTasks / tasks.org, synced by DAVx5 / SmoothSync / DecSync) is a user choice
rather than a requirement, and our own CalDAV sync is the 1.x arc. Sibling to
Calendula. See the
top-level ../README.md for the project pitch.
Index
| Doc | What it covers |
|---|---|
ARCHITECTURE.md |
How Agendula is built today — layers, the data seam, provider resolution, the reminder engine, DI, build/tooling, manifest. Start here to work on the code. |
ROADMAP.md |
Status and what's next — milestones (M0–M6 + Posture B), what's done, open decisions, how to build/verify. |
STORAGE-AND-SYNC.md |
Where task data lives — the decision to ship our own provider, the storage modes, permissions, distribution, and the dead ends. Supersedes PLAN.md on storage. |
SYNC.md |
How data reaches a server — the CalDAV sync adapter: the VTODO ↔ TaskContract mapper, Nextcloud sign-in, the engine, libraries and their licenses. Step 5 of STORAGE-AND-SYNC.md. |
STORAGE-DECISION.md |
Keep the vendored provider, or build our own? The measured cost of both. Decided: build our own. |
OWN-STORE.md |
Agendula's own Room store — the schema, recurrence design, migration off the vendored provider, and the six-phase plan that deletes :provider. Supersedes the "keep the provider" position in STORAGE-AND-SYNC.md. |
PLAN.md |
The original implementation plan and design rationale — the A-now-B-later thesis, what transfers from Calendula, the locked decisions. The "why". |
RELEASING.md |
How to cut a release — the git-tag-as-source-of-truth flow, CI jobs, F-Droid repo, required secrets. |
../provider/PROVENANCE.md |
What the vendored :provider module is, where it came from, and every deviation from upstream dmfs. |
Also: ../CHANGELOG.md (Keep a Changelog format; tag sections
feed the release notes).
How the docs relate
- PLAN is the original design decisions (the "why"), left as the historical record. On storage it is superseded by STORAGE-AND-SYNC.
- STORAGE-AND-SYNC and SYNC are the standing decision documents: the first settles where data lives, the second how it syncs. Both record rejected alternatives on purpose, so decisions don't get relitigated.
- ARCHITECTURE is the current shape of the code (kept in sync with the source as it grows).
- ROADMAP is the moving status layer (update as milestones land).
- RELEASING is the operational runbook.