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[Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi TenLeftFingers,

Great that you are continuing to scrutinize Today scope and scopes in
general!

As you noted, the Today scope behaves like any other aggregator scope
according to the design principles of the scope framework, so this is
not really  bug against the Today scope but about the scope framework.
Therefore, I am going to add a task so that team can see this.

In general it is the responsibility of child scopes to do the right
thing, for example using cached data when appropriate to speed things up
and reduce network usage.

A few comments: 
1) You mentioned a possible issue with sms messages. If so, can you please file a bug against https://bugs.launchpad.net/texts-scope. Please note that the Today scope is only supposed to display a text message if it was received today.

2) Yes, the Day scope could and probably should cache its first result
on each day and use that instead of making another web api call each
time. I filed this bug to track this request: https://bugs.launchpad.net
/day-scope/+bug/1500486


** Summary changed:

- Today Scope reloading needs rethinking
+ Aggregator reloading needs rethinking

** Also affects: unity-scopes-api (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1500467

Title:
  Aggregator reloading needs rethinking

Status in Today Scope:
  New
Status in unity-scopes-api package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The Today scope is basically a place-holder for 'sub scopes'. The
  today scope has three problems which cannot both be resolved under the
  current system. These are:

  1) The scope is reloading at times I do not want it to
  2) The scope has not got the latest data (eg sms message) when I want it
  3) When the Today scope reloads, not only is it slow (BQ 4.5) but it also takes down the entire scope system with it for a few seconds.

  The problem is that when the Today scope refreshes/reloads, it reloads
  all sub-scopes. However, Weather and Today do not need to be reloaded
  for 24 hours at a time (maybe weather is an exception here).

  I think the Today scope should be a 'dumb placeholder' and the sub-
  scopes should be responsible for calling for refresh. The parent
  (Today scope) could then refresh an _individual_ sub-scope using ajax
  or similar. This would improve all three issues above but challenge
  some other fundamentals, eg:

  4) Scopes should be stateless (according to current thinking)

  I would challenge this also, as it would solve the issue where the My
  Music scope shows the user their music sorted by artist, even after
  they have changed it to album sorting.

  The Today scope has come a long way since I got the phone in April and
  I now have it enable since the latest update a few weeks ago. But the
  issues I describe above are 'as expected' behaviour and I think this
  itself is the bug.

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