Re: An Address Book Feature

Hi Anderson,

I'm the best stand-in we have for product manager right now.

Currently Contacts is not supported in the app. We have had 2 summer  
interns work on Contacts, but have not yet settled on an  
implementation strategy for how to model Contacts.

I think it would be best for someone from the development side to  
provide a technical summary for Contacts. Grant? Jeffrey?

As you may have seen from the links I sent you, on the design side,  
we've discussed a wide range of possibilities.

At this point in the project, we are most interested in:

1. Having enough Contacts support to provide a way for 3rd party  
developers to plug into it when developing parcels.

2. Supporting 'basic' Contacts management needs in Chandler, where  
'basic' might include things like:
+ Import/Export of contacts
+ Access and display a list of contacts
+ Display contact details
+ Ability to categorize contacts by collection

Things that might be excluded from the 1st round of implementation  
(although you never know!)
+ Bi-directional links between items and contacts
+ Easy navigation between linked items and contacts
+ Integration of contacts into Stamping workflow (e.g. Turn a note  
into a Contact)

Mimi

On Nov 28, 2007, at 9:19 PM, Anderson Cielto wrote:

> Hi, Mimi.  Thanks for responding to my outreach.  Specifically I  
> would like to know what is the current status of such a feature?  
> Does a prototype exist for testing? Who specifically is the the  
> product manager?   My motivation for wanting to build out the  
> Chandler Address Book comes from my belief that it would be a great  
> place to start given new found interest in Python Programming, and  
> to help create what I believe would be a simple, self-contained  
> feature that will add tremendous good-will and value to an already  
> revolutionary product.  I currently use the Mozilla Suite of PIM  
> tools (Sunbird & Address Book) and I have been testing out Chandler  
> Desktop.
>
>
> Regards,
> Anderson Cielto
>

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