IMAP annotation for groupware folder descriptions

Gunnar Wrobel wrobel at pardus.de
Tue Nov 6 15:29:05 CET 2007


Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> writes:

> Hi Gunnar,
>
> On Tuesday 30 October 2007 10:57, Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>> But in general I believe it makes sense to use solutions that don't
>> lock people down. 
>
> we are on the same page here.
>
>> And I'd like to see the Kolab format being used a 
>> little bit more frequently than it is being used at the moment. This
>> should have a beneficial long term effect because we'll have more
>> people being interest in getting the format supported.
>
> I would like to see more widespread use, but not at all costs.
> The format itself is important to present a good groupware funcationality to 
> users. If the group of client fully supporting it is small, it is easier
> to improve the format and thus the groupware experience.
> Kolab Server XML is designed to by a storage data format and to this extend it 
> is internal to each one particular Kolab Solution setup.
>
> Also the format comes along with more requirements for a Kolab Client 
> to fullful. 
>
>> What I'd like to suggest:
>>
>> We should define a second, optional possibility for setting the folder
>> type. This approach should use standard IMAP capabilities. This is
>> something that a client MAY implement.
>
> I first feeling is to not add an additional method.
> Choice is good in principle, but in this regard I would rather
> have a higher burden for Kolab Clients and to not water down the brand.
> Kolab2 compliant servers would need to implement the freebusy mechanism
> and the incidences-for funcationality as well.

I don't want to require the clients to implement this. I just think it
would be a desireable extension. Especially for Horde.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> Best,
> Bernhard
>
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