[CalendarServer-dev] [CalendarServer] #207: Recurring events do not appear to extend beyond November 2008

[Peter Mogensen]

CalendarServer wrote:
> #207: Recurring events do not appear to extend beyond November 2008
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>   Reporter:  dekkerdreyer@…          |       Owner:  sagen@…           
>       Type:  Defect                  |      Status:  closed            
>   Priority:  1: Blocker              |   Milestone:  CalendarServer-2.0
>  Component:  Calendar Server         |    Severity:  Serious           
> Resolution:  Software changed        |    Keywords:                    
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Well... this bug has a corollary.
With the ability to create events longer into the future the possibility 
that a user will create an event with more than "max_allowed_instances"
(currently 1000) increases.

 From instance.py:

# The maximum number of instances we will ezpand out to.
# Raise a TooManyInstancesError exception if we exceed this.
max_allowed_instances = 1000


... which will make events disappear again.

I see no good solution to this without some mechanism for the user to 
clean up old calendars, so the don't unnecessarily contain - say - 5 
year old daily events.

/Peter