9:59 p.m.
Hello!
Busy times... ;-)
Merged all pending patches for improving interoperability with more
servers (Mobical, Memotoo) into master branch in preparation for 0.9.1.
As is often the case, the testing with Memotoo found several issues in
the server, which were fixed quickly. Message resending suffered from
one problem with misbehaving servers (endless loop with Funambol-based
servers), which we have a work around for now. Synthesis has reviewed
and merged all of our patches, too.
Translations for 0.9/Moblin 2.0 in translate.moblin.org are now done on
a maintenance branch, so we made our string changes for 0.9.1 on the
master branch. We'll continue to work towards 0.9.1 on master for
another week or so before releasing a snapshot and starting testing.
The open issues for 0.9.1 are (most important first):
* Congwu, 3427 - poor usability with network interruption: resend
messages
* Yongsheng, 3604 - command line: use keyring
* Congwu, 6127 - workaround for 200 vs 201 status codes + Replace
instead of Add
* Jussi, 5871 - unsupported and unavailable data categories
(Google calendar/task/memo)
* Congwu, 6181 - Package SyncEvolution core as a library for third
party developers
* Memotoo + Yongsheng, 5635 - test and support Memotoo
* Jussi, 5717 - sync UI needs to set an icon for its window
* Jussi, 5219 - Add a Service with 200 chars of name,
syncevolution-dbus has corewatcher
Some of these have patches pending or just need testing, so there is
some work left for me, besides writing the release notes ;-)
During the face-to-face in London Jussi, Nick, Patrick, Tom Counihan
(Intel's representative at GENIVI) talked about sync. It was a very
productive meeting: lots of ideas for next steps and things to
implement... In general, the wish list for 1.0 increased instead of
decreased during the meeting.
Regarding sync : we identified that automatic syncs are
expected soon, because they make sync really useful in the
Moblin usage models. Manual intervention should only be necessary when
something went wrong. We were already working towards that goal (EDS API
changes, sync server without GUI, recovery mode), but we didn't have it
on our feature list for SyncEvolution 1.0. The biggest gap is in the
GUI.
My proposal is to work towards a 1.0 alpha with the features as planned
so far (minimal changes in GUI, direct device-to-device sync), then
re-evaluate whether we release it as 1.0 or continue adding the missing
features.
Development:
* Yongsheng: keyring support (#3604), nightly testing, Memotoo
interoperability
* Congwu: article about extending SyncEvolution for the SDK,
libsyncml patching for testing with OBEX, outgoing OBEX
connections, Alert 222 loop detection.
* Jussi: UI D-Bus proposal
* Patrick: UI D-Bus proposal refinement, partial implementation in
new syncevo-dbus-server, investigated build failure of
SyncEvoluion 0.9 in Moblin trunk (root cause: invalid type in
libsoup, reported and resolved now)
Noteworthy new issues:
* Users have reported problems with the Horde (server sends
invalid XML, WBXML works) and eGroupware (doesn't support WBXML,
sync does not complete) servers. Currently we are not testing
against those.
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Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
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