Provider for Google Calendar

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by m on May 6, 2015 · permalink

No calendar entries in sight, so I followed the advice from a 5-star review here called "Works for me!!!". The author writes:
"I deleted the google calendar and re-added it and everything was back."
The same applies for me. But I don't share the opinion that this method means that it "works", or that it should be rated 5 stars.

If the plugin reliably shows the calendar entries and gives alarms, it *works*.
If the plugin at any time does *not* show the existing calendar entries, and/or misses to give an alarm - without warnings - it is not reliable and is frankly *not working*.

For a program to "work", it is not enough to "seem working for the time being". For software quality, there is a time perspective, there is a reliability aspect, and there can be a comparison with having a live person doing the job. Would it be accepted if a person behaved the same way, suddenly disappearing without a trace?

Apart from this, when it "works", it most often does its job quite well. Sometimes lots of old alarms come back, which is very annoying in the long run. All in all, 3 stars with lots of possibilities to reach 5! :-)