[Design] Options for Invitation workflow in 0.7

[Grant Baillie]

On Jan 23, 2006, at 7:58, Jeffrey Harris wrote:

> There are three major ways of interacting with free/busy I'm aware of.
>
> A) Shaniqua publishes her free busy to an HTTP server (could be  
> CalDAV,
> could be something else)
> B) Landis publishes all his events to a CalDAV server, the CalDAV  
> server
> dynamically calculates free/busy
> C) Delin responds to an iTIP request for free/busy information
>
> It would be very appealing to implement B) in a Scooby/Chandler/Cosmo
> world where users might not be using Chandler all the time.
> Unfortunately, this requires that users publish their whole  
> calendars to
> a CalDAV server.  This is likely to be significantly slower than
> publishing a single VFREEBUSY file, so I don't know that we should  
> force
> people to do this.  I also don't know if/when Cosmo is likely to  
> support
> this.
>
> I think we definitely want to support A) and C), SWAG: 5 days.

(Replying to a somewhat old message in this thread):

Cosmo trunk (0.3) supports free-busy reports.

--Grant