Add a field to contacts table to reflect the contact source

[neubauer]

Some plugins are using a copy of the contacts table to store their data, this way lacking the contact group allocation functionality. To get the group allocated, the "contact_id" is not unique within all the contacts.
To get things together it would be helpful to store those records within the contacts table, giving the plugings a field like "contact_source" to manage the contact sync for a plugin differently in a pre/post update situation.
All those 3rd party addressbooks could then benefit from the group allocation system as well.

[alec]

We have no cross-source groups and it'd be hard to implement such functionality. Because of that, plugins should use separate tables for groups handling. -1 for me.

[thomasb]

Reschedule