[Design] [Sum] April 17 - 21

[Priscilla Chung]

This weeks design summary is from April 17th - 21st. -Priscilla

There was no design session this week.

Design - New Discussions:
Sheila posted Chandler alpha2 data migration plan. In summary, it's a  
bit ugly but there is a migration path. We are working towards a  
better solution for 0.7.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-April/004626.html

Design - Continued Discussions:
Philippe posted on the issues surrounding the ability to restore free- 
busy after a Chandler user has deleted their repository. Currently  
the free-busy share appears in the restore list but we don't really  
want this added to the sidebar, it should get hooked up under the  
covers. Philippe discovered a bug where an empty collection gets  
added to the sidebar when you try and restore this. Technically it's  
a share but it behaves a bit differently. The PPD team will tackle  
this and have a proposal in place for alpha 3.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-April/004534.html

Mimi posted a thread to the list, exploring the use cases for adding  
private annotations to read-only items. Overall, it seems like there  
were quite a few uses cases for this covering calendar events, email  
and tasks.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-April/004553.html

Mimi posted a summary of all the discussion to date on the sidebar  
icons and various visual treatments for the checkboxes etc.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-April/004559.html

Mimi posted a last call for any comments on changing the icons for  
the Communications (formerly known as Mail) Kind and the Calendar Kind.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-April/004620.html

Dogfood
Sheila posted a summary of dog food feedback (part 3) Highlights  
include:
    + Things that prevent me from even experimenting/playing with  
Chandler
    + Things that prevent me from using Chandler day to day
    + Nice to have and interaction annoyances (inconsistencies?)
    + Nice to have for "ultra" usable calendar
    + Feature requests outside the scope of calendaring
    + Potential design issues to discuss
    + Recurring feedback
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-April/004603.html

Sheila and Mimi re-prioritize the dogfood bug list.
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/ 
ZeroPointSevenCalendarPriorities
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-April/004625.html

Jim Sowers posted in his dogfood: Random Calendar notes:
+ Observations about Yahoo and Google calendar and wishing Chandler  
would import .CVS files from Outlook or .PST files
+ Ability to import data
  + Ability to modify data offline or via web (hoping the Chandler  
client will get thinner)
  + Ability to export data (migration out if necessary)
  + Long term prospects -- I want to be betting one someone who will  
be around for a while.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-April/004629.html

Scooby
Sheila posted where to locate the preliminary Scooby specs. Which are  
located at the bottom of Scooby 0.2 page.
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/ScoobyZeroDotTwo

Priscilla posted a proposal for a user preferences feature.
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/ScoobyUserPreferences
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-April/004605.html

Priscilla posted a proposal for time zone. Discussion was to be  
focused on which release would the team be working on the time zone  
work or if we can work on this feature or not people care about time  
zones.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-April/004581.html
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-April/004587.html

Cosmo
Priscilla posted a proposal about a work around for recurring events  
in Cosmo that is slowing down performance for Scooby. The current  
plan of action is not to do anything for the time being until the  
Cosmo team has more time to investigate the bug. The course of action  
will either be 1. fix the bug or find a more reasonable work around.
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-April/004582.html

Other:
Alec sent out an article web calendar discussion:
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-April/004573.html

Ted posted information and created a Wiki page to track the Google  
Summer of Code: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/ 
GoogleSummerOfCode2006
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-April/004621.html

Ted posted information on an open source Sync Kolab:  address book   
and calendar sync via imap
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-April/004624.html

John Townsend posted an article about Bill Gates with a focus on  
working environments:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/30/news/newsmakers/gates_howiwork_fortune/
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-April/004514.html
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