[Chandler-dev] Sharing format discussions..

[John Townsend]

Hi Chandler and Scooby teams,

I have spun up the discussion on the Sharing Format on the Cosmo  
Mailing list today. I think its critical that we all work together to  
make this sharing format happen. Its a strong tenet of our whole  
ecosystem and it affects all of our projects.

Please take the time to pop over to the Cosmo mailing list and get  
involved in the discussion. I am copying my email to the Cosmo list  
below in case you aren't subscribed to the Cosmo list yet.

I decided to post my original email to the Cosmo list because the  
sharing format will involve Cosmo in a big way. Scooby and Chandler  
will both work with the sharing format. In my opinion, that makes  
Cosmo the common denominator in the sharing format.

Please respond to the cosmo list if you have questions, comments,  
concerns, ideas, suggestions, etc.

Thanks,
--> John

Hello Everyone,

At Sprint Week, we had a meeting where we discussed the Sharing  
Format for the ecosystem. We talked about a number of proposals and  
ideas. Katie proposed the following priorities for Sharing and we  
reached consensus on those priorities. In case you don't remember,  
they are:

Priorities
1. Desktop Client <--> Cosmo (with support for "rich sharing")
     Web Client <--> Cosmo (with support for "rich sharing")

2. Cosmo implements standard formats/protocols for interop with  
existing/future clients: CalDAV, iCal+WebDAV, Atom/RSS, CardDAV, Atom  
Pub, GData

3. Use standard formats when sensible.

We then talked about a number of ideas for the sharing format, a  
number of concerns, and some requirements. We also talked about a  
number of assumptions. For the meeting notes, please check out:

http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/ 
SharingFormatMeeting20060510

At the end of the meeting, we left with a number of next actions that  
need to take place to get the ball rolling. Here's the list of items  
we had at the end of the meeting:

Proposed Staging
- Investigate cosmo sync performance
- SYNCREPORT
- Chandler starts using new format
- Cosmo understands the new format (translations)
- Cosmo implements transactions
- Chandler can break out of the "clouds"
- Migration?

Now that we have recovered from Sprint Week, its time to pick this up  
where we left off and get the ball rolling again. With that said, I  
have some questions:

1. Has anyone done any work towards the items on the proposed staging  
list?
2. Who should own each of these next actions?
3. Is this list of actions complete? I am not sure it is.
4. We talked about XML/RDF, Cloud XML, and micro formats. We need a  
proposal to start the discussion on the sharing format? Does anyone  
have a strawman they are willing to float?
5. What about the protocol? Are we set on DAV as the protocol for  
sharing?
6. What concrete steps can we take to move this effort forward?
7. Do you have any questions? Please respond and post them to the  
mailing list.

When you look at the notes from our discussion at Sprint Week, I  
think you could say that we got to the point where we have the seed  
of a strategy for sharing. We need to take it to the next level by  
flushing out the strategy and then creating a plan on where we need  
to go and how we get there.

So, I ask you to speak up now. Let's get ideas out on the table and  
get the discussion flowing.

Thanks,
--> John


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