Random bits from Osnabruck: day 1 + 2
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.
