The CalDAV specification has been under development for a few years now, and at the same time I -have seen increasing pressure from clients to provide a solution to their shared calendaring problems. +
The CalDAV specification has been under development for a few years now, and at the same time we +have seen increasing pressure from people and organisations in the open source world to provide a +solution to their shared calendaring problems.
In evaluating the possibilities for shared calendaring, there are a number of possible approaches, but -I have elected to follow the path of implementing CalDAV because I believe it is a good specification +we have elected to follow the path of implementing CalDAV because we believe it is a good specification and that it will in due course gain client implementations and provide the richest user experience through those client implementations.
CalDAV is a client-server protocol specific to managing and reporting on collections of calendar resources.
-As such, my intentions in developing this application are as follows:
+As such, our intentions in developing this application are as follows:
I have chosen to write this in PHP because I believe that PHP is a widely available web scripting language.
-I have chosen to use the Apache web server because it is also widely available. This is not necessarily a requirement, -but I do not have other PHP environments available to me at this time.
-I have chosen to use the PostgreSQL database, because it is a free, open-source database, which operates on a very wide set of +
We have chosen to write this in PHP because we believe that PHP is a widely available web scripting language.
+We have chosen to use the Apache web server because it is also widely available. This is not necessarily a requirement, +but no testing has been undertaken in other PHP environments to date.
+We have chosen to use the PostgreSQL database, because it is a free, open-source database, which operates on a very wide set of operating environments, and which is fully ACID compliant.
I use the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, so at this stage I have made Debian packages available. If -I find willing people I will make packages available in other forms.
-This goal is not expected to be achieved in the first few releases.
+For the greatest ease use you should consider installing RSCDS on the Debian GNU/Linux +distribution from the readily available, signed packages.
+We expect to increase the level of automation and simplicity for the Debian target release in particular, although other +distributions might also become easier at the same time. We do expect slightly greater installation complexity in the first +few releases as we come to understand the particular problems people experience.
In general RSCDS should not need significant maintenance to keep it operating.
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