[Chandler-dev] Subscribe/Publish of CalDAV collections

[Mikeal Rogers]

Our experience right now when subscribing and publishing from other  
CalDAV servers is pretty poor.

- We only support "sharing" and a "sharing" account. This is not only  
alien to most CalDAV users it doesn't follow normal subscribe/publish  
workflows from other clients.
- For every server that requires auth we need to add an "account" in  
the account preferences.
- All of our current account options refer to "sharing", this in  
contrast with language used in all other calendar clients. In  
addition these options don't just publish the events in a calendar  
they put the old chandler xml file up there and try to publish more  
than just calendar data.

In most clients you simply select "subscribe" or "publish" on your  
calendar collection and are prompted to enter a URL. The client  
attempts to publish and if the server requires auth it prompts you  
for auth.

Obviously this is in contrast to our current sharing workflows and  
we're getting close to release. In the interest of keeping this  
simple and nice for everyone I'd like to suggest a new "Publish to  
CalDAV" and "Subscribe to CalDAV" option in either the Collection  
menu or the Share menu that would follow the simpler usage described  
above that is being implemented across every other calendaring  
client. It would be great to have this in a released Chandler before  
the end of the summer as the abundance of caldav servers and clients  
is about to increase dramatically, obviously only if it's not too  
much work/effort to risk our Preview schedule.

-Mikeal
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