Re: [SM-DEVEL] Development plans

[Alvaro Munoz-A. Mtnz. <alv...@ay...>]

At the moment only comments to number 3, below

Erin Schnabel wrote:
> THREE - The new Addressbook:
>     I've been working (with Paul's blessing) on the beginnings of a design
> for the new Addressbook that will conform to the ZooKeeper model. To
> be honest, having a vCard interface was not on my list as a core part
> of the new Addressbook.. It should certainly support and interact with
> vCards, but I don't see that being a core requirement - should be an
> add-on module, in my opinion.
>     I do have the following items as a poll for your feedback (I'll get
> the design together and will post it - hopefully in CVS within
> whatever area Paul has decided is appropriate so that everyone can
> hack it to bits):
> 
> 1. I think we want (at the LEAST):
>        Support for individual addresses
>           - adding from email to/from/cc fields
>           - using nicknames
>       Support for address groups
>           - basically nickname for multiple people
>       Standard address book features
>          - search/sort/list
>          - autocomplete in To/CC/BCC fields?
>          - add/remove
>          - import/export
> 
Everything here looks great, I find autocomplete quite useful I use it 
all the time instead of looking up and opening a record.

> 2. Address information:
>       Currently thinking of three levels of contact info
>          Basic - Full Name, Nickname, email
>          Business - Basic +
>                 Business-type telephone/address information
>          Family - Basic +
>                 Family-oriented information (addr + anniversary/birthday)

Dates on the info, hmm that leads us to calendar.... For the rest seems ok

>     There are two ways to use these levels, either
>     as attributes of the entire address book (what kind of site is it)
>     OR as an attribute of the address itself (since we only need
>     the basic elements to address mail, having a blob containing
>     the rest of the information would hardly hurt.. something to chew
>     on in any case).
> 
> 3. Address books - only one?
>     I think we need support for multiple address books.
>     At LEAST, we have the personal address books.
>     I think we should offer (within the Zookeeper structure)
>     support for group address books (common for groups
>     of users - a global address book would be a special case
>     where the group of users happens to include everybody).
>     There will have to be some determination for how you
>     decide who can or can't edit addresses in group address
>     books, but I think that's a long way off yet.
> 

Well, usually there is support for multiple address books (for personal 
use and to share), althought for a first thing a personal address book 
is ok, lots of people ask sometime if they can share an address book so 
everybody can lookup one and a webmail is the place where ppl like that :-P

> SO, I'd like some opinions.
> Common elements that every address book entry should have? Do you think
> having different levels is stupid? If there were personal and group
> address books, should the listings be intermingled or separate?
> 
> Some of that is sort of low-level, especially for this early in the
> design, but I wanted to throw it in there just to see what you guys
> thought. The address book and the Calendar are the two things I think need
> the most work, so I volunteered to get the Address Book re-written.
> 
hmm anyway a convination of a bug and a wiki entry to talk about this 
kind of things is better than using the list, imho is a bit cumbersome 
to follow up the mails.

> Let me know what you think.
> And darnit! Try out that data_dir fix!
> 
> Erin
> (sizzle)
> 
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Alvaro