I am forwarding this to the design thread. The free-busy we support
we have now has a number of nasty bugs. As Jeffrey outlined, there is
quite a bit of work to get this fixed.
+ I second the proposal to cut free-busy for Preview. This means
removing it from the menus etc and deferring any additional bugs.
+ I propose we add it to the Preview.1 bucket. Free-busy is also
related to our interop goals with the Apple CalDAV scheduling stuff
and it may be something we need to address immediately after Preview.
In any case, I think it's a candidate for consideration.
Sheila
Begin forwarded message:
From: Jeffrey Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: February 16, 2007 11:55:55 AM PST (CA)
To: Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Chandler-dev] Cutting freebusy for preview
Hi Folks,
I hadn't worked on freebusy for several months, so yesterday I spent
several hours figuring out where we're at. I put my results in bug
6593. In brief:
We've made lots of CalDAV sharing improvements since I last worked on
freebusy, unfortunately they've made freebusy not work. None of these
problems is big, but together it'd take a day to put it back together.
There were already problems with freebusy, notably the need for a
dialog
to confirm erasing previous versions of the special hiddenEvents
collection and fixing a few minor issues like making sure we don't
restore the hiddenEvents collection when restoring shares. None of
this
is particularly tricky, it's just time.
Finally, Cosmo's done a lot to move forward freebusy, but because we
weren't actively dogfooding freebusy, we didn't give the Cosmo team
feedback about freebusy problems in a timely way. There are still
a few
issues (currently freebusy tickets don't give PROPFIND permission,
freebusy results are off by an hour, and all day events aren't
included). I imagine the fixes for these aren't big, either, but I
don't have first hand knowledge.
All in all, I think all this is relatively straightforward, but I
think
all told it's on the order of a weeks work, and I don't think it's
worth
investing more time in before Preview, so I'd like to leave freebusy
disabled for Preview (or, alternately, removed from the UI, if that's
required for polish).
Sincerely,
Jeffrey
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