[Chandler-dev] Contacts/Address Book project

[Mike Taylor]

Hi,

Like Grant mentioned in his reply, I would think that getting vCard 
support would be better done first as, IMO, it would really solidify 
any issues your going to run into with the current Chandler code and 
schema :)

Another thing I thought of as I was reading your tasks on the wiki page 
was this: Couldn't Contact Groups be handled by using the existing 
Chandler concept of a Collection?  I'm not sure if this has been 
thought of and rejected but my thought was that any Contact could be 
added to any number of collections and that would allow you to 
manipulate the Contact's membership separately from the actual Contact 
data item.

I would also urge that you keep an eye out for the fact that almost 
every item you have in a "normal" Contact schema will have multiple 
occurances.  Note I said "will" and not "could" - someone somewhere 
will want 20 phone # while another person will want 20 addresses and 
yet another will want 3 different name fields.  Not that you need to 
support that now, just keep it in mind :)

Your wiki page looks great and I can't wait to start helping you test 
the implementation - Contacts is one of my personal dog-food 
requirements so I'm looking forward to it.

On Jun 24, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Ernesto Rivera wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> My name is Ernesto Rivera, I am a Google SoC student working on the 
> Contacts/Address Book side of Chandler. My mentor is Grant Baillie who 
> set-up a wiki page to track the project's status:
>
> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/AddressBookProject
>
> I know this subject interests many of you, so please go to the page 
> and give your suggestions editing and commenting/linking as needed.
>
> Briefly I intend to:
>
> - Use the existing and PyCon's 2006 contacts implementation.
> - Work the integration of contacts within chandler (custom views, 
> stamping, etc.).
> - Conceive simple and nested group of contacts (which should work on 
> prev. scenarios just like single contacts).
> - Only then review contact item's attributes, comply with vCards and 
> deal with importing/exporting contacts.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ernesto
>
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