Re: [Tools-discuss] Important dates in upcoming.ics

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

So, the offending bit is this:

BEGIN:VEVENT^M
UID:ietf-110-opensched-2020-12-07
SUMMARY:IETF 110: Scheduling Opens
CLASS:PUBLIC
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201207
DTSTAMP:20210202T191034Z
DESCRIPTION:Working Group and BOF scheduling begins
To request a Working Group session, use the IETF Meeting Session Request 
Tool:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/secr/sreq/
If you are working on a BoF request, it is highly recommended to tell 
the IESG
now by sending an email to [e-mail] to get advance help with the 
request.
END:VEVENT

The folding of DESCRIPTION doesn't match what the RFC allows, and 
Calendar.app does not forgive it. (But doesn't error...)

It's interesting that https://icalendar.org/validator.html doesn't 
complain about it - I suspect there is something really subtle that 
breaks what implementations would otherwise try to be really forgiving 
about.

We have other places where we're violating the RFC currently that 
Calendar.app does forgive.

In any case, the fix will be to get the folding right.

I've also spotted how to make these events transparent to busy searches, 
and will add that.

RjS


On 2/3/21 11:58 AM, Robert Sparks wrote:
> It has the same problem as discussed at 
> https://trac.tools.ietf.org/tools/ietfdb/ticket/3161#comment:3
>
> I'm looking into it.
>
> What's currently there looks like this:
>
> BEGIN:VEVENT
> UID:ietf-110-cutoffresched-2021-02-10
> SUMMARY:IETF 110: Cut-off Reschedule Requests
> CLASS:PUBLIC
> DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210210
> DTSTAMP:20210110T230331Z
> DESCRIPTION:Cut-off date for requests to reschedule Working Group or 
> BOF meetings UTC 23:59
> END:VEVENT
>
> But that's clearly not making Calendar.app happy.
>
> If someone with good ical skills has time to look and suggest what the 
> form of the event _should_ be, please do so.
>
> RjS
>
> On 2/3/21 11:42 AM, Lars Eggert wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2021-2-3, at 19:37, Bob Hinden <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> I subscribed, but am not seeing anything on my calendar :-(
>> same here. I wonder if the iCal file is corrupt? (It's not empty at 
>> least.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lars
>>
>
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