Random bits from Osnabruck: day 1 + 2

Posted by toma on January 12, 2009; This entry is filed under English.
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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.

3 Comments

  1. Philip January 12th, 2009 at 23:49

    First of all: Thanks for your reply in your previous post about Osnabrück.

    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.
    It would be awesome if the websites (and the bug-tracker?) will finally become usable again.

    Its nice to hear what you are planning for the next releases.
    Thank you for your summary of the meeting! Looking forward for the (at least two) more blog posts about Mailody and the websites ;-)

  2. Mark Ziegler January 12th, 2009 at 21:59

    Please let us know whats coming up.
    Specially the kde-www are interested :-)

  3. KAMiKAZOW January 12th, 2009 at 22:04

    Hi. Are there any news whether Akonadi gets adopted by other projects? The last time I read 2007 that GNOME wants to implement Akonadi for GNOME, but nothing since then.
    What about Thunderbird? I requested it in Mozilla’s Bugzilla, but so far there are no too serious replies.
    It would be cool to have both projects’ manpower behind Akonadi.