Yesterday I drove to Osnabrück. After checking in, I was just in time for the start of the meeting. After some small conversation we went to the restaurant, and had a good dinner. The dinner was sponsered by Intevation. Even if I wanted to spent money on this event, it is not possible ;-)

Today we kicked off with a demonstration by Thorsten Staerk, which showed us Krep. Krep is an interface around the GNU tool grep. It makes it really easy to find certain strings in a big text. You just get a window splitted in two parts. One part shows the text and in the other area you can enter multiple regex based expressions of items you want to find. It also works on streaming output, so you can actually redirect the debug output of your application to it, filter out what you want and see the lines you are interested in.

After that Jaroslaw Staniek gave a presentation on his Windows laptop about the current state of kdepim and his tools. Most of kdepim is working and we got a great presentation of it. He also showed us the Windows way of debugging and the possibilities of it. We were all so jalous….

Currently it’s Carnaval in Osnabrück, so even when we are on the third (or is it fourth?) floor, we hear a lot of noise from outside, there are many, many people out there, all starting to get drunk. It’s kind of amusing. We joined the crowd and went out for a small lunch at the “Subway”, just before we discussed the plans for 4.1.

That discussion was pretty short and on-topic. Till Adam joined the discussion with a video link. We agreed what we want to do and when. Basically for 4.1.0 the plan is to deliver a stable kdepim. Not based on Akonadi, but a complete port. After the release of 4.1.0 we can start porting the application piece-by-piece to Akonadi and hopefully present that for 4.2.0, but that’s almost a year away, so that’s difficult to plan at this point of time. It’s important to have the applications stable and provide the infrastructure/platform of Akonadi first. With that, it should be possible for Mailody to make a release somewhere during the 4.1.x cycle.