[Proposal] Goals for Item-Sharing vis-a-vis: Re: [Last call] Re: [Chandler-dev] Shipping ticketed-URLs around for individual items via email

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Jeffrey,

See in-line.

On Mar 10, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:

> Hi Mimi,
>
>> *Item - Sharing between Desktop users*
>> 2a. Recipients receive message in their email clients where they  
>> see sharing URL
>> - They click on it and Chandler Desktop automatically subscribes  
>> to the time;
>
> I'm not clear on what mechanism we'd use to get arbitrary mail  
> clients to send URL clicks to Chandler Desktop.  We could  
> conceivably use our own custom scheme (like webcal:// instead of  
> http://), but that's both tricky to get right on all platforms and  
> generally frowned upon.  Also, the link wouldn't work for casual  
> collaborators, we'd need two links, which is confusing.

I dunno if 2 links would be that confusing:

View this note/event on Chandler Hub: http://...
Subscribe to this note/event with Chandler Desktop: http://...

> Failing a custom scheme, I don't think we can get clicking a link  
> to take users directly to Desktop.  We could send them first to the  
> Hub, or we could use a localhost link on a well-known port to talk  
> directly to the Desktop, either way it'd open up a browser, it  
> wouldn't take you directly to the Desktop client.
>
>> OR
>> 2b. Recipients receive message in Chandler Desktop where Chandler  
>> detects sharing URL and automatically subscribes to item, or if  
>> user already has item via Sharing, the message is zapped.
>> Does that sound like the right thing to do?
>
> This approach is much closer to what we do now (we could maybe get  
> by with just a custom header instead of an EIMML attachment, which  
> might let Chandler emails get through Mailman).

I think it might still be important to connect the workflow from  
email. A header would be good.

>
> The downsides are similar to what we already have; it requires  
> configuring mail accounts in Chandler and it's magical (Chandler  
> does something people don't expect, if they set up an account, they  
> pretty much expect to get all their mail, or nothing).

I don't think we're going to get rid of inbound email accounts tho,  
if only to continue supporting the IMAP folder scenario.

>
>> - Support downloading email replies to messages sent from Chandler  
>> (so you have entire thread in Chandler)
>
> I guess this could be made to work for people who use the all- 
> messages-in-their-Inbox filing system, but I think it would be very  
> expensive to make this work for all IMAP usage patterns.  I worry  
> that doing this would look like not just magic, but unreliable magic.

Not sure I'm following...Why would this be unreliable? Meaning,  
people might file replies out of their Inbox?

>
> So, I'm not sure we're on the same page about long-term item- 
> sharing goals.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeffrey
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