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In the afternoon of day 1, we started plotting the work we would like to do for the 4.3 and the 4.4 release. Basically, we would like to start porting KAddressBook and KOrganiser for the 4.3 release and KMail for the 4.4 release. That seems like a lot of work, and realistically it is. But the thing is, we need to do it, so we better get our hands dirty soonish. Porting KAddressBook is not the right description. We will have a new shiny one from scratch for the 4.3 release. I’ve seen the first bits of it and that will be just fine.

Also we will have a new IMAP-resource for the 4.3 release, that means my reliable hand written IMAP resource is going to be trashed. Although I have also known it was due for a rewrite – actually I was preparing that by making unit tests, so I could make sure it worked after the rewrite – I still will remove a tear from my eyes when that day arrives. It is still working well for me in Mailody3 each and every day. But I can’t beat the quality of the KDAB-people so, I’ll let them to their trick and the nice thing is that I can use that in Mailody without code changes due to the Akonadi framework.

I’ve decided to do no releases of Mailoady during the 4.2 timespan, due to a couple of reasons. You would expect me to write them here now, right? wrong ;-)

Anyway, back to the meeting. After that discussion we went out to eat something, had discussions during dinner about FSFE, de elfstedentocht, desktop clients for CRM-applications, the internals of Groupwise and Domino. Hmm, next year we should try Cars && Women maybe ;-)

After that we went back to our hacking spot for a bit more. The next day we had a short meeting about the current state of the pim-related websites. Which is basically horrible. We created a plan for the future and will probably execute it somewhere in the next month. You would expect me to write them here now, right? wrong again.

I’m not in the mood for details today. Maybe later. Now it’s time to relax. It has been great days, thanks to Intevation for hosting and organizing the meeting for the 7th time in a row.

# zypper ref
Downloading repository ‘Main oss’ metadata [-]Timeout exceed
Abort, retry, ignore? [A/r/i]: i
Invalid answer ‘i’. [A/r/i]:

Yesterday I woke up, put some clothes in a bag and drove up to Hengelo to pickup Bertjan and go to the PIM-Meeting. The drive was fine. In some of the narrow streets of Osnabruck the roads were a bit slippery, so I could verify that my cars traction control was working just fine and it informs me that it is working due to flashy light on the dashboard. Good to know that….

At the meeting we started right away with addressing some of the pending issues. It is amazing how much faster you can get all to the same page when you are in a face-to-face meeting. Like evaluating the Akonadi migration. We all agree the beta period has been pretty good in that regard. A lot of distro’s made changes in the packaging and we got a good overview about which areas need a bit more work. And that’s exactly what the goals were.

We also talked about kdepim runtime split and the move of akonadi to freedesktop.org. Kevin already blogged about that earlier, so no point in repeating that. This morning we had a very nice presentations from the student project from Toulouse. They have created applications for addressbook and calendars which work based on Akonadi and the layout is adjusted for the Nokia N810. It was nice to see that. After that Bertjan presented a bit about what he was working on, which resulted in nice discussions about licensing within KDE. I hope we can lift the awereness of licensing and copyright a bit, so in 10 years we don’t end up with a mess.

Also we discussed a bit about Akonadi promotion, the websites, bug handling and kdepim on the mac and windows. There is so much to discuss. It is important to see that everyone is talking to everyone, everyone is eating with random sets of people. No fixed groups of people all hanging out with only the same poeple. The KDEPIM team seems to be bigger and more friendly than ever… to be continued…