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

[Brian Moseley]

On 7/14/06, Mikeal Rogers <mikeal at osafoundation.org> wrote:

> 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.

i wish i could answer these questions for you, but i don't know the
official, osaf-approved answers :) for me personally, the answers are
1) yes and 2) no.

> 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".

or it presumes that we've developed enough that success is probable or
at least possible for a majority of people.

> 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.

agree.

> 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.

i'd rather take the approach that we implement all mandatory features
of caldav +carddav and whichever optional features we deem useful and
reasonable, and that we do something similar with gdata but perhaps
with a subset of caldav's reporting features.

we should also take a look at the extended, non-caldav capabilities of
chandler and scooby and decide if we want to expose any of them
through webdav and atom extensions.

finally, any administrative or management operations supported through
the cosmo web ui should also be available over the network in some
fashion (webdav, atom, cmp, whatever).