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

[Mikeal Rogers]

On Jul 14, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:

> 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.

Good point. I think our current implementation of CalDAV, for now, is  
at this point since I can't think of a client that exists today that  
requires features we don't have.

>
>> 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).

This sounds like a great plan. Any chance we can get this approved as  
the "official" plan before the merge :) -- I'm half kidding.

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