Should the first release connect an external scheduler?
- Collect a preferred window and let staff confirm it
- Connect an authoritative scheduler or calendar provider
Choose: Start with a preferred-window request until the team has one authoritative availability source and has reproduced the provider account, credentials, API or webhook, time-zone, retry, conflict, and outage paths.
Tradeoff: Staff confirmation adds a manual step but keeps scope and availability truthful. A verified scheduler reduces coordination only after its conflicts and partial failures are handled.
