[Design] [Scooby] Scooby/Chandler Sharing, Interop

[Bobby Rullo]

Hi guys,

Now that we are about to release Scooby 0.1 I wanted to start the  
conversation on Scooby/Chandler Sharing and interoperability in general.

Scooby right now is a straight-up CalDAV client and knows nothing  
about the features that make Chandler special - like having events  
that can exist in more than one Calendar/Collection.

Some open questions:

* How much of Chandler's special* functionality do we want in  
Scooby?  And how should that affect interoperability?

* Do we want to extend CalDAV/WebDAV  to accomodate this stuff?

* Is Scooby just a calendar client, or is it the online version of  
Chandler?
    * In collections that have stuff other than icalendar resources,  
what should scooby be expected to do?
    * How about plug-ins? Should Scooby have server-side plugins to  
match the client side plugins?

* What ARE these special features?

I know it may be sort of early to be thinking about a lot of this  
stuff as Scooby is still young, but I just wanted to get a handle on  
what the vision for the project is, and what if anything we need to  
be doing now in Scooby architecturally.

Bobby





*special here means the functionality is not something than can be  
expressed with WebDAV or CalDAV semantics, like the events in  
multiple calendars example above.