Re: Cosmo wiki page questions

On Jul 19, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> From perusing the Manual, my sense is that most of it's really  
> material for the Admin, even though it often touches on end-user  
> functionality, it's end-user functionality from an admin's  
> perspective.
>
> If you're running Chandler Server for a Law Office, the lawyers  
> aren't constructing tickets and using the Account Browser to manage  
> resources. They're using the end-user web application Dashboard and  
> Calendar views.
>
> The person reading this kind of documentation is really an admin,  
> where perhaps they are their own end-user...

It's not strictly true that only admins will need this info.  Anybody  
using just Cosmo and a non-Chandler desktop client - like iCal,  
Evolution, or Sunbird/Lightning might need to generate tickets to  
share with other people.    These folks are not Chandler Desktop  
users, but they are not Cosmo administrators either.

Ted


>
> ===
> Cosmo supports two kinds of calendars:
>    * "webcal", in which an entire calendar is stored on the server  
> in a single resource (file). This is the format popularized by iCal  
> and supported by just about every calendar client, but it is too  
> limited to allow effective read-write subscriptions; usually only  
> the person who published the calendar can update it.
>    * CalDAV, where a calendar is represented on the server as a  
> collection (folder), and each event is stored inside the calendar  
> collection as a separate resource. This format makes read-write  
> subscription (real calendar sharing) possible, and it makes syncing  
> medium- and large-sized calendars much easier.
> ===
>
> So, I'd actually advocate lumping all of this together as Chandler  
> Server reading material (with all the usual caveats that not all of  
> it is up to date) and not try to position the Manual as something  
> for end users.
>
> Mimi
>
> On Jul 19, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Ted Leung wrote:
>
>> On Jul 19, 2007, at 7:13 AM, Mimi Yin wrote:
>>
>>> In-line...
>>>
>>> On Jul 18, 2007, at 11:32 PM, Ted Leung wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I found a number of different Chandler Server related guides/ 
>>>>> manuals and had a few questions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this document up to date? Who is the intended audience?
>>>>> http://chandlerproject.org/Documentation/ 
>>>>> ChandlerServerEndUserManual
>>>>
>>>> The document is not up to date for Cosmo 0.7, but the intended  
>>>> audience is people using Cosmo to share via CalDAV / WebDAV
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> How is the EndUser Manual audience different from the Server  
>>>>> Bundle Adminsitrator audience?
>>>>> http://chandlerproject.org/Developers/ServerBundleAdministrator
>>>>
>>>> One is for end users (although not the hub target user) the  
>>>> other is for the person who downloads Cosmo and needs to  
>>>> configure/set it up
>>>>
>>>
>>> End-users for Chandler Server or end-users of Chandler Hub or  
>>> both? (I think users will likely self-identify by whether they're  
>>> using Chandler Hub or someone else's instance of Chandler  
>>> Server.) Is this something we want to maintain / update for Preview?
>>
>> Primarily end users of the Server, although some of the info would  
>> be useful for advanced users of the hub.   We are assuming that  
>> the quickstart guide will be sufficient doc for the initial  
>> launch, but I think that we are going to find that we need  
>> "fuller" end user manuals/docs for both the desktoip and server/ 
>> hub.   Whether we actually have the bandwidth to do that is a  
>> separate question.
>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps we should split out a separate section in the FAQ for  
>>> Chandler Server Administrators...
>>
>> I think so.
>

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