[Dev] Domain model meeting

[Ted Leung]

On Feb 3, 2006, at 4:19 PM, Bryan Stearns wrote:

> 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?)

Added to the list

>
> - 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)

I'll be looking at this as part of 3531

>
> - 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.)

Added to the list.

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