Hi,Like Grant mentioned in his reply, I would think that getting vCard support would be better done first as, IMO, it would really solidify any issues your going to run into with the current Chandler code and schema :)
Another thing I thought of as I was reading your tasks on the wiki page was this: Couldn't Contact Groups be handled by using the existing Chandler concept of a Collection? I'm not sure if this has been thought of and rejected but my thought was that any Contact could be added to any number of collections and that would allow you to manipulate the Contact's membership separately from the actual Contact data item.
I would also urge that you keep an eye out for the fact that almost every item you have in a "normal" Contact schema will have multiple occurances. Note I said "will" and not "could" - someone somewhere will want 20 phone # while another person will want 20 addresses and yet another will want 3 different name fields. Not that you need to support that now, just keep it in mind :)
Your wiki page looks great and I can't wait to start helping you test the implementation - Contacts is one of my personal dog-food requirements so I'm looking forward to it.
On Jun 24, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Ernesto Rivera wrote:
Hi,My name is Ernesto Rivera, I am a Google SoC student working on the Contacts/Address Book side of Chandler. My mentor is Grant Baillie who set-up a wiki page to track the project's status:http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/AddressBookProjectI know this subject interests many of you, so please go to the page and give your suggestions editing and commenting/linking as needed.Briefly I intend to: - Use the existing and PyCon's 2006 contacts implementation.- Work the integration of contacts within chandler (custom views, stamping, etc.). - Conceive simple and nested group of contacts (which should work on prev. scenarios just like single contacts). - Only then review contact item's attributes, comply with vCards and deal with importing/exporting contacts.Cheers, Ernesto _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "chandler-dev" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-dev
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