[Framework-Team] PLIP 246: View for rendering events as an iCalendar file

[Alec Mitchell]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:51 AM, David Glick <davidglick at onenw.org> wrote:
>
> On Oct 19, 2008, at 10:55 PM, Alexander Limi wrote:
>
>> Hi Framework Team,
>>
>> On behalf of Andreas Zeidler, I'd like to offer up the following PLIP for
>> your consideration for Plone 3.3:
>>
>> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/246
>>
>> It's a pretty trivial PLIP that adds a new view that is capable of
>> rendering events as an iCalendar file, so people can subscribe to Plone
>> events in various calendaring software like iCal, Google Calendar, Outlook,
>> Sunbird, etc.
>>
>> The view is added to ATContentTypes, and is currently implemented on a
>> branch (and includes tests).
>>
>> PS: Andreas is fully responsible for the implementation here, I'm only
>> helping out by writing a short PLIP for him.
>
> An unofficial +0.5 from me, which will increment to +1 if the following
> question is addressed:
>
> Why is a calendar support mixin used, instead of adapting to
> ICalendarSupport?  The latter would make it easier to also implement
> calendar support for non-AT content.

No mixins please.

Alec