Today I left from Culemborg (near Utrecht), to pickup Igor from Schiphol (Amsterdam) and pickup Bertjan in Breukelen (near Utrecht) to finally go to Essen in Germany to the LinuxHotel. We were the last to arrive there. The hacking location is great, just a big room with a lot of tables and a kitchen filled with free drinks and coffee. The big downside of this location is that you have to walk like 20 meters to get to the other building where the rooms are ;-)

The rooms are more than 5 stars rooms in my eyes. There is this plasma screen which is approximately twice the size of my own television, with a linux computer attached and also a picture frame with ‘guten nacht’ on it right now. Other highlights are nicely working showers, tux soap and a real tux sitting in the lazy chair. It is a shame we spend so little time in there.

This year, I’ve been to all relevant KDE meetings which were within reasonable car-reach, and I’ve noticed that I became a bit lazy in my preparations because of that… My laptop wasn’t in a good shape to start straightaway, which is really annoying. Thanks to the icecream cluster for fixing that. Still pretty annoying that kdebase from the branch is not working correctly in kdelibs trunk.

As protocol states, I brought the famous Stroopwafels from The Netherlands. It were the fake Albert Heijn ones, which is probably the reason Will lost a filling on one of them. So he needed a dentist. We discussed the todo list for 4.2 already and now everyone is busy on reaching the goals. Tomorrow we will do api-review, presentations and discussions. Hopefully Till can be join us and arrive tomorrow.

I started hacking on item sizes. If you look at a regular mail client, usually you have a separate column that indicates the size of a message. Akonadi did not support storing that in the way we wanted that. So that needed change in the Akonadi database, libraries, resources and the models. Just before i went to bed I got that working, now the different patches need to be cleaned up, reviewed and unit-tested, so that will take me the rest of tomorrow probably combined with the other stuff planned.

Update:I discovered the picture frame isn’t a picture frame.