[Cosmo-dev] Re: [Cosmo] Free/Busy in Chandler 0.7

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Folks,

Philippe said:
> One thing that bug reminded me which is relevant to this thread is
> that we want something for free/busy which is consistent with what we
> do for minical. We don't want to explain to users how "My Calendar"
> shows one set of event, "minical" is computed on another one and
> "free/busy" a 3rd one... Delay in synchronization is hard enough to
> cope with that we don't want to add difference in logic to the mix.

Agreed, everybody's idea of mine needs to be consistent, including freebusy.

Bear said:
> Could we not also publish free/busy to multiple locations just like
> calendar information.  I tend to view free/busy not as a part of the
> calendar(s) I maintain but as a totally stand-alone resource that is
> published to either everyone or a known set of people.

I think this is a good feature, we'll probably want it eventually, but I
don't think it's on the critical path for 0.7 users.

So, to summarize my current plan for free/busy publishing, I'm going to
move forward with:

"Publish my freebusy" will ask the user to choose a server, and create a
collection (not displayed to the user) containing

Mine - (items appearing in collections that are shared to the given server)

A URL will be returned which a free/busy report will need to be run against.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey