[Chandler-dev] Subscribe/Publish of CalDAV collections

[Morgen Sagen]

On May 7, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:

> 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

I agree with pretty much everything you said, but I don't know how  
much of this can be done for Preview.