Hello, It's great hearing everyone's opinion on the proposed calendar access protocols.
I think Helge is pretty much correct on the state of the technology. CalDAV will most likely be completed within months, maybe a lot sooner. We are already communicating with servers in test since the past few drafts with minimal changes between drafts. Also most commercial offerings are WebDAV based, and that seems to be the direction in which things will continue. Servers which do not support WebDAV will probably lose share to those who do, so I expect the more popular servers to include, at least WebDAV support in the future. Matt McNeill wrote:
If CalDAV is so far away from being an agreed standard, perhaps several years away, shouldn't we be considering an interim interface to the most popular 2 or 3 web-calendar applications? Just in order to make this great
I appreciate your point of view but my main issue with this statement is that you are not taking into consideration the resources needed to develop those interfaces. We could _consider_ interim interfaces, but then what? :) Someone will have to design/develop/test those interfaces. Probably several hundred man-hours per interface depending on the protocol's complexity. If we haven't been able to get 1 protocol out the door, would it be reasonable to consider 2 or 3 more?
I know and agree that from a standards poit of view what you are doing in this development is the right thing, but from a user point of view and a take-up point of view it might be worth considering an interim tack.
As mentioned earlier, considering a direction is the easy part. Actually getting something done is a whole different story. Which brings me to my point. That unfortunately, the whole argument is moot because we do not have the resources.
Keep up the great work,
Thanks for your support. We'll try. Best Regards, Kervin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ otlkcon-devel mailing list otlkcon-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/otlkcon-devel