[dev] Reservations using kronolith

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Jason Rust <jrust at rustyparts.com>:

> 1. When a user goes to create a reservation they invite, as one of the
> participants, the resource they want.  Some sort of cron script is running on
> the server and intercepts the iCal invitation.  If the requested resource is
> free it sends an acceptance reply to the user.  Downside with this approach
> is that a cron script is a bit kludgy and it is not the most intuitive method
> to an end-user.

As the previous replier suggested, a script that handles these replies
automatically would be better. It could even read rules managed from 
Kronolith,
etc. Would be a pretty slick implementation.

> 2. Create a shared calendar for each resource (this would likely have to be
> done for idea #1 as well).  The user then selects the resource from the list
> of calendars when they go to make a reservation.  The shared calendar is set
> up to not allow overlapping entries in one of the three ways:

I don't like this one.

-chuck

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