Automattic / Automattic/pocket-casts-ios
Replace DispatchQueue.Sync with Actors
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- Swift
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Description

There are a number of places in the app that uses DispatchQueue.sync to prevent multi threaded race conditions that seem like good candidates to switch to Actors.
Example: https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-ios/blob/402e8281c6668ef0cd679701057d5e21fb2b612e/podcasts/DownloadProgressManager.swift#L16
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the DispatchQueue.sync usage in podcasts/DownloadProgressManager.swift at the linked example, then identify the other locations in the app that use the same pattern. Determine which usages are candidates for Actors and define completion as replacing the appropriate race-prevention patterns without regressions.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- swift
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100