[Decibel] Brainstorming for what contact-data decibel should store

[Tobias Hunger]

Hello!

Everybody say Hi to George in his new function as GSoC student, working on 
KDE4 integration of Decibel! Best of luck for your work on Decibel!

On Wednesday 23 April 2008, George Goldberg wrote:
> A DECIBEL CONTACT is supposed to represent one individual person.
> General information about that person is stored in it, as well as any
> number of IM ACCOUNTS. IM ACCOUNTS contain information specific to
> individual instant messaging accounts held by the contact.

How does this integrate with the persons stored in akonadi?

So far I thought of Decibel having a simple mapping between Telepathy handles 
and an Id that refers to the entry in Akonadi. That entry already has IM 
account data as well as phone numbers, etc., even with one preferred entry 
being highlighted!

We will need to store additional statistical data:
Friend with, last seen, status, status message, maybe a "total seen count" to 
find the preferred accounts of friends.

How can we store that efficiently in Akonadi? Merging it into the entry for 
the person seems impractical to me as we would then need to store that data 
along with the rest on LDAP or something:-)

I have not explored akonadi too deeply at this time, so this idea might be off 
the mark.

Best Regards,
Tobias
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