239682 - Support for shared calendars

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 215971

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Stier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040404
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040404

It would be nice to have two points solved regarding that issue:

1.) Make remote/shared calendars sync in the background. Put a status icon next
to the calendar list: synced/unsynced/syncing/error/sync problem. Clicking on it
should give a dialog explaining the error or the sync problem. In the latter
case the user should be able to solve the sync problem (eg. if the remote
calendar has an item modified while locally it has been deleted).

2.) Extend/implement a (simple?) calendar modification protocol (like cvs?).
Simply give the changes numbers (versions) and let the user decide what to do if
changes interfer with each other. Version numbering is important since we should
have some sort of primitive serialization of changes. Hmmm... isn't it possible
to just include cvs into mozilla?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mark Stier]

(In reply to comment #0)

Ok, cvs may not be good idea since it would require a cvs server.

Comment 2

[Gavin Hamill]

Does XUL even support the concept of a Timer so that the 'Refresh Remote 
Calendars' function could be called without user intervention? 
 
If so, surely the amount of work required to implement a 'Refresh Remote 
Calendars every N minutes' would be minimal? 
 
It would seem Mozilla Calendar is very close to providing shared calendaring 
on the cheap, but requiring people to manually right-click on the Refresh 
option is really nasty! :( 
 

Comment 3

[Joey Minta]

Mark,
    The issue about auto-refreshing remote calendars is covered in bug 215971. 
As far as the second issue, I'm not really seeing how such an idea could be
accomplished.  Managing 'branches' of a calendar could get quite complicated. 
Since you changed your mind about the 'CVS' idea (which I agree wouldn't work
well), do you have any suggestion for how this might be accomplished?  If not, I
suggest that this bug should be marked a duplicate of bug 215971 and left at that.

(In the future, please only submit one issue per report.)

Comment 4

[Joey Minta]

Mark,
    Since you didn't respond, I'm going to go ahead and mark this bug as a
duplicate of bug 215971, covering your first request.  If you think of a good
way to implement the second request you can re-open this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 215971 ***

Comment 5

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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