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

[Mikeal Rogers]

> given that we've implemented probably 80% of the protocol, and the
> most useful 80% at that, and that we have demonstrated
> interoperability with a number of clients, i feel reasonably sure that
> a lot of people will get what they need out of what is already in
> cosmo. but the door is wide open for those who need the other 20% to
> contribute patches.

I think this hits directly at the heart of our questions about the  
"eco-system".

-Does the eco-system include other clients?
-More importantly, can the eco-system, and the osaf hosted service be  
successful without other clients and open interfaces.

Sure, we can say at any point "We're not going to develop this  
anymore and if someone else wants to we'd be happy to commit it" but  
that presumes that we have made the decision that which ever feature  
we stop developing ourselves is not necessary to the success of the  
hosted service or part of the "eco-system".

I think that if we are all in agreement that we do need these  
interfaces written and tested for the service to be successful, then  
we need to include it in the Beta plan and allocate resources to it  
appropriately. I for one would be in favor of an item in the Cosmo  
development plan that stated "any and all features in cosmo must be  
exposed via a public interface in the release the feature is added to  
Cosmo", and I know that in QA we can then prioritize our work and  
create tools and test scripts that tested this.

At this point I want to draw a distinction between "any and all  
features in cosmo" and something like "full caldav compliance".

What I mean is that if there is a Cosmo API, and scooby is getting  
information about a calendar with that API that would directly  
correlate to a CalDAV REPORT, then we should put in the time to write  
the CalDAV REPORT's and test them.

I don't mean that if we support calendaring we should do full caldav  
and gdata support in the first release. But what ever we do with the  
cosmo internal api's, someone should be able to do via the external  
API's.

-Mikeal