GroupDAV

Time 2022-08-18 03:16:52

Web Name: GroupDAV

WebSite: http://www.groupdav.org

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GroupDAV

Description:

Home Old Draft (text) GroupDAV was an effort to create a "down-to-the-earth" protocol to connectOpenSource groupware clients with OpenSource groupware servers.By the means of reusing theiCalendar(RFC 5545)andvCard(RFC 2425)formats to represent data, and theWebDAV(RFC 4918)protocol to retrieve records and apply changes.
A major goal of GroupDAV was to keep the protocol as simple as possibleand to stay focused on real world issues with OpenSource and free softwareapplications.
Unfortunately, though, this didn't completely fly ;-)
More precisely, GroupDAV got superseded byCalDAV(RFC 4791)andCardDAV(soon to be an RFC).In fact the basic idea of using iCalendar and vCard on top of WebDAVturned out to be a great success with a lot of support from even thelargest companies, Apple, Google, Oracle, Sun, Yahoo, Zimbra but also from a lotof small companies, say Kerio, Zarafa, or OpenSource projects likeScalableOGo,DAViCal,Bedeworkor Mozilla Lightning.
CalDAV and CardDAV are more complex, but apparently people want that - just checkthe list of implementors :-)
The CalDAV/CardDAV development is driven by theCalConnect consortium.Everyone is welcome to join!

Status

GroupDAV isn't developed any further. Its superseded byCalDAV(RFC 4791)andCardDAV.

FOSDEM

Helge did a talk on CalDAV/GroupDAV atFOSDEM,you can grab the Video over here:CalDAV - the open groupware protocol

From the early stages of GroupDAV: Cornelius Schumacher interviewed

KDE Kontact guru Cornelius Schumacher got interviewedduring the Dutch KDE-PIM meeting.The interview contains a nice introduction into the motivations of GroupDAVand why it doesn't conflict with CalDAV[read it!].Cornelius was part of the KDE team that joined with participants of OGo to create the first version of the draft.

The Draft (deprecated)

The draft-01 is the very first version of the draft. It has a set of issueswhich need to get resolved - we will need some iterationsuntil this is a sound document.
Be sure that you understand the limited scope of this effort priordrawing incorrect conclusions. You are invited to join ourmailing listto ask any question you have.

So what is it about?

GroupDAV had a very specific focus which is connecting the three popularOpenSource clients - Kontact,EvolutionandSunbird- with the broad range of OpenSource "groupware" servers. Whatever"groupware" means to the ~200 projects listed on Freshmeat.
This is a very specific focus because all the three clients have no legacyissues and are 100% iCalendar based while the far majority of the OpenSourceservers started as RDBMS web applications which did not care about iCalendarat all.
Our goal was to connect them to native clients in a useful way despite theirlegacy issues. As an example consider the Bugzilla bugtrackingsystem to expose its bugs as iCalendar tasks. Bugzilla can't representa recurring task in the iCalendar concept nor does it feature alarms.
GroupDAV is supposed to deal with such setups in a graceful andpragmatic way.

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