[Cosmo-dev] Re: [Scooby-dev] Cosmo/Scooby Merge (Please read and comment)

[Brian Moseley]

On 7/13/06, Pieter Hartsook <hartsook at osafoundation.org> wrote:
> I realize there may be significant benefits for our project by using
> proprietary API's, but I wanted to raise the issue of the appearance
> of our support of open standards.
>
> If we decide to bypass the CalDAV API from Scooby to Cosmo in favor of
> proprietary integration, we should be aware that this could send a
> public message that OSAF, one of the primary implementers of CalDAV,
> felt that the standard was not appropriate for its own project
> internally .
>
> If we go ahead with this approach we should have a reasonable position
> addressing this issue.

the position is that this is a rational architectural choice that has
no bearing on whether or not cosmo continues to support caldav, which
it will.

> Perhaps the position might be that CalDAV is important and supported
> as an interoperability protocol for exchanging and sharing event-based
> calendar information between solutions from different vendors, and
> that we will continue to incorporate and support that. But because the
> Chandler/Cosmo/Scooby solution is more broad, eventually encompassing
> more than just the calendar data addressed by CalDAV, we decided me
> needed a more proprietary solution for web access to our server on
> which we can store and retrieve calendar and as well as other kinds of
> information.

that's pretty good pieter :)