[srobo-devel] Intent to remove autosave from the IDE

[Peter Law]

Hi,

Cross posted to srobo and srobo-devel for visibility. Please reply on
srobo for general/feature discussion or srobo-devel for technical
queries [1].

One of the current complications with the git backend of the IDE is
the presence of the Autosave feature. Usage data [2] suggests that
no-one uses it, so I plan to remove it shortly. Before doing so, I'd
love to hear from anyone who currently uses it or feels strongly that
it should stay.

Thanks,
Peter

[1] I'm happy to discuss the technical details; I don't think they're
needed for a general discussion though.
[2] Added in https://www.studentrobotics.org/cgit/cyanide.git/commit/?id=202a6fc360a9673b189a794fc1836d0c2ad9edcb,
a month before the competition. The data shows 4 hits for autosaved
content vs 1250 for loading the file from the currently saved state.
I'm pretty sure those four were me checking that it was working.

[Peter Law]

Hi,

Post by Peter Law
One of the current complications with the git backend of the IDE is
the presence of the Autosave feature. Usage data [2] suggests that
no-one uses it, so I plan to remove it shortly.

This has now happened and the changes will go live tomorrow morning.

I've also made a start on removing the general reliance that we
currently have on the fact that the git repos are on the filesystem,
which should eventually allow us to move to non-filesystem repos if we
want. I'm expecting, but haven't yet verified, that we'll also get
some performance benefits from this too.

Thanks,
Peter