I released RSIBreak beta 5 yesterday evening. I can not recall ever making 5 beta releases before in my life. Not for digiKam, kipi-plugins, libkipi, Mailody, Akonadi or RSIBreak. But the good news is that RSIBreak is now bugfree according to bugzilla and there is only one Junior Job present, which is good.

I would love to do things like a network sync so you can break together with your favorite colleague which also uses RSIBreak, but that seems to be more difficult than I thought. I browsed through some applications that uses the zeroconf KDE implementation. But it requires to much code for such a feature. I’ll check again in a few years, maybe someone has made a more high level API around zeroconf. Yes, it is the lazy option, I know.

Maybe Junior Jobs in bugzilla need more explanation. I don’t recall being on planetkde recently. Junior Jobs are jobs which are great bugs for people that want to start with KDE development and want to start with some easy to implement features. These are not bugs which the application developer does not feel like implementing because it is boring or only serves a small portion of the users, no.. I leave them open for a while in bugzilla to give people the chance to start with KDE development. So if you want to start developing for KDE, take a look at our list of Junior Jobs on bugzilla.

Next Friday is the start of a new Akonadi meeting. Goal there is to give the Akonadi Pillar a good shakedown for the next KDE release. This should be the release where Akonadi KDE Libraries should be in good shape to be used for everyday usage by users. They don’t have to know they will use Akonadi for their address book, it simply will happen ;-). But before that, we need to make sure we have the stability which is required. We’ve seen all kinds of interests from application developers. Recently I’ve seen KPilot do things with Akonadi, KJots too and the KIPI-plugins team is considering it. For this meeting KPilot and KJots authors will be available, so we can fix any issue they run into quickly. I say ‘we’, but it’s mostly ‘Volker’ btw. Credits where they belong.

I’m also looking forward to get Mailody in shape for a new release. I’ve recently fixed a large set of bugs and I hope that after this weekend I can switch permanently to Mailody4. What might help here is that Igor is flying in from the Amazon area in Brazil (he’s exchanging 30 degrees Celsius for 3 degrees Celsius; talking about motivation ;-)). This summer (that’s actually winter there, right?) he has made an Akonadi testing framework. I’m really looking forward to his presentation to see in what way we can make use of this framework. I’ll make sure I’ll blog from the event.