[Dev] Domain model meeting

[Bryan Stearns]

Ted Leung wrote:

> For 0.7 I am taking over the Domain model.   Sheila, Mimi and I  
> talked a bit about known work items related to the domain model.  The  
> notes of our  conversation are at <http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/ 
> view/Journal/DomainModelIssues>.
>
> Please let me know if you have other domain model issues that are not  
> on this list.

Ted,

I think there are bugs for a few of these, which are all issues for how 
we expect developers to add Kinds to Chandler:

- We don't have a strategy for how developers will participate in 
mixing-in with pim kinds. (the wiki page talks about mentions supporting 
use cases - maybe we need some for developer uses of the domain model?)

- The notion of supporting different types of the "body" attribute isn't 
really workable; Note's "body" pretty much needs to win (and be text) 
for all pim types (or note bodies will appear and disappear with stamping)

- Someday mail will be a tenet, and when it becomes one, Implementing "I 
want to mail this" by adding MailMessageMixin to the item's superkinds 
is too limiting: if the thing you're sending IS the mail message, you 
can only mail one item this way, and you can only mail it once (unless 
we want to add lots more mechanism to track multiple sendings of an 
item). (I bring this up now because we're talking about how invitations 
should work.)

...Bryan