Re: Please allow me to change event details for event invitations I've accepted

Peter Lairo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.calendar
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fr. 21.09.2012 18:31, gNeandr wrote:
> On 21.09.2012 11:00, Peter Lairo wrote:
>> Please allow me to change event details for event invitations I've
>> accepted.
>>
>> Is there a bug for this? Is nay developer interested in this?
>
> AFIU the RFC defines only the organizer is allowed to change the event
> details.
> Need to change the RFC first?

As long as the local change doesn't affect the shared details, and as 
long as the shared details are preserved (e.g., as a "View original 
event details" tab), then there is no need to "change the RFC"[1], and 
the very good reasons to give the user the control of his event details 
prevail.

Note: Many event organizers are managers or secretaries who have little 
knowledge or interest in providing adequate details for an event 
invitation; they just want you to "be there" because they said so. The 
interest and priorities between inviters and invitees are often very 
different, and every invitee has different levels of details that they 
want to have in "their" event.

[1] BTW: Referring only to the RFC and ignoring the users' needs is a 
major reason OSS often fails to attract a majority of users; and e.g., 
*one* of the reasons why, unfortunately, Internet Explorer 4 + ActiveX 
was successful and the "better" Netscape died).

-- 
Regards,
Peter Lairo

Bugs I think are important:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250539
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391057
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436259
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446444

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