- So much Contacts work [1]:
- there are events for contacts being added, modified, removed [2].
Currently all three are encapsulated in a single event but these will be
split out
- lots of discussion about whether applications should have the ability
to _manage_ contacts (be able to add, remove, modify), or whether this
should be routed through a single global manager that would be up to
implementations to create. If there are Cordova users reading this, if you
have any use cases here, I would like to share them with the SysApps
group. There was contention that having multiple contact manager
applications is not a valid use case, which, I believe, is not valid.
However I'd like to back that up with some real-life examples.
- W3C infrastructure. The specs being worked on are on GitHub [3]! Go
check them out, star the ones you are interested in, send pull requests,
submit issues, etc. Really cool!
- There were questions and concerns raised about "bus factor" w.r.t.
GitHub. I chimed in about our experience (GitHub / Apache). Marcos (who
seems to be leading the community/GitHub effort in the W3C) has some
guidelines [8]. Hopefully some middle ground is found so W3C can tap into
the OSS community on GitHub without compromising W3C's control over
infrastructure.
- New proposals and phase 2 focus moving forward.
- GM from QualComm presented a geofencing proposal as Geolocation
enhancement.
- A Seamless Mobility API (from my understanding, somewhat vague) was
presented. Conclusion was gathering more requirements + use cases for
this, it seems like instead of a new API, most of what was proposed could
be shoved into NetInfo API.
- Unfortunately it was decided phase 2 items would not be
discussed/scheduled until the phase 1 items moved to last call
(reward-based motivation in a way). However, gathering use cases for APIs
that we have experience with can be done on the wiki [4]. Relevant ones
are:
- Browser API [5] parallels our InAppBrowser API.
- Media Storage API [6] is a superset of a subset ( :D ) of our camera
API. Perhaps we can help out there.
- Related, the Contacts API [7] is in a working draft state but has no
use cases. I'd like to put some effort into gathering a few. There are a
lot of decisions being made w.r.t. this spec, so having some kind of
real-life basis seems.. reasonable.
[1] http://contacts-manager-api.sysapps.org/
[2] http://contacts-manager-api.sysapps.org/#contactschangeevent-interface
[3] https://github.com/sysapps
[4] http://www.w3.org/wiki/System_Applications
[5] http://www.w3.org/wiki/System_Applications_WG:_Browser_API
[6] http://www.w3.org/wiki/System_Applications_WG:_Media_Storage_API
[7] http://www.w3.org/wiki/System_Applications_WG:_Contacts_API
[8] http://www.w3.org/wiki/System_Applications#Editorial_process
