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wishlist: support for marking calendards read-only #807

Closed mbiebl closed 11 years ago

mbiebl commented 11 years ago

Version: 5.0

Hi,

it would be nice if I could mark calendars as read-only. The specific use case is, that I have separate calendars, one is for school and public holidays. This is a one-time import and I want to mark it read-only, so I don't accidentally delete entries from that calendar or add new entries to it.

jancborchardt commented 11 years ago

Hm, marking calendars as read-only for yourself seems like a really edge-case. We are low on people who can work on the calendar so we need to prioritize. Hence closing this for now.

mbiebl commented 11 years ago

I've provided a valid use case. If the team is not able to work on such a feature atm then this is fine and understandable, but please keep the bug open and mark it as such. Outright closing it is rude imho and it's not the first time that a bug was closed without a good justification. If the OC team is not interested in bug reports, then it should say so and I won't waste my time anymore filing them. This is pretty annoying.

mbiebl commented 11 years ago

E.g. the justification for closing https://github.com/owncloud/apps/issues/1480 e.g. is completely bogus

jancborchardt commented 11 years ago

Sorry, but we have to first get the apps up to par with other widely used software. I see neither of the features you describe in software like Google Calendar or iCloud, nor do I see the usefulness in them to be honest. I didn’t just outright close them, I always provided an explanation.

We do appreciate bug reports and specifically yours we fixed a bunch of, like https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/5879, https://github.com/owncloud/apps/issues/1486, https://github.com/owncloud/apps/issues/1482 (which I fixed)

At the same time please note that most of us are volunteers, or each app only has one or two people sometimes working on it. And we have our own ideas about how the apps should look and work. First and foremost we strive for simplicity and not being yet another complicated open source software.

Also, the »oC team« is not a fixed thing. Everyone can contribute code, including you. :)

jancborchardt commented 11 years ago

So that said, thank you very much for your issue reports and requests. I hope you keep them coming but also be aware that we don’t see every issue as valid and that the issue tracker certainly is not our task list.

mbiebl commented 11 years ago

Sorry, but we have to first get the apps up to par with other widely used software. I see neither of the features > you describe in software like Google Calendar or iCloud,

look at e.g. fruux.com, when creating new calendars you can specify what components the calendar will hold, this is extremely useful for the reasons I mentioned

fruux

fwiw, why should feature parity with iCloud be the only goal? Can't OC be better/more flexible then those commercial offerings.

nor do I see the usefulness in them to be honest.

May I ask if you use you calendars on mobile devices, e.g. Android phones? If you do and you have multiple calendars, the features I mentioned make a lot of sense.

jancborchardt commented 11 years ago

Comparing with iCloud etc is only an intermediate goal of course. And we have to get there first. Lots of bugs to fix before we can think about new features. We have to be cautious that flexibility does not result in feature bloat.

And yes, I use the calendar on my Android phone as well as I used it on my iOS device and Firefox OS phone. No problem at all. But ownCloud's design is not about my personal taste, it's about doing research and checking what the leaders in a specific type of app do well.