10:07 p.m.
Hi!
Here's another summary of thing going on with SyncEvolution...
* HOWTOs for SyncEvolution 1.0 alpha as server available
* clarified goals and procedures for accepting outside
contributions
* merged first big contribution: an XMLRPC backend
* proposed talks at FOSDEM
In following up with the SyncEvolution 1.0 alpha release, HOWTOs about
setting up syncing with a phone and as HTTP server were published:
http://syncevolution.org/development/sync-phone
http://syncevolution.org/development/http-server-howto
For those compiling from source, note that the server-side admin data
format has changed last Thursday. Remove
sources/*/[.internal.ini|.server.ini] when updating to start from
scratch.
m-otion.com developed an XMLRPC backend which exchanges data via a web
API. After a brief Intel-internal discussion we came up with what I hope
is a very flexible and agreeable policy for accepting contributions
either with an informal copyright waiver, a more formal license
agreement or under an open source license. For details, see:
http://syncevolution.org/development
Proposed talks for FOSDEM, both a lightning talk and in the
cross-desktop devroom. Looking forward to meeting you there, whoever you
are! :-)
The mailing lists and syncevolution.org will be taken care of by our
Chinese colleagues while the rest of us take vacations over the
holidays.
Development:
* all: discussions around D-Bus restore API (MB #8144);
configuring client and server (MB #7838); handling unexpected
slow syncs (MB #2416) and recovery mode in the sync-UI
* Yongsheng: provide information about "waiting" state via D-Bus
API (MB #2229, needed for "spinner" in GUI); listing logs
possible without selecting a specific peer (MB #8049), analyzed
and reported a bug in the Memotoo server (incorrect size
calculation for items split across messages); ZYB.com for
contact sync is going to be supported in 1.0 (MB #2424)
* Congwu: fixed storing of server-side admin data;
more work on testing with Nokia 7210c, including workarounds for
sending time stamps as UTC
* Jussi: new settings GUI; draft for emergency view; fix for
sync-UI problem in alpha 1 when using localization (MB# 8618)
* Raji: workaround for exporting corrupt calendar events with
missing timezone definition (MB #7879)
* Patrick: more Oracle Beehive interoperability testing (and
ensuing discussions about interpretation of the iCalendar 2.0
standard...); fix building in non-GNOME environment (MB #8338);
workaround for libecal bug in error situation, avoids crash (MB
#8005); clarified file backend configuration (MB #8146); wrote
scripts to exchange patches with gdbus and libsynthesis for
shared files, sent patches to Marcel for merging into gdbus
Noteworthy new issues:
* user inquiries regarding supporting the native Maemo 5 calendar
(mailing list, MB #8511)
* More reports about OVI.com (doesn't send email addresses). We
are in the process of establishing contact with Nokia for
OVI.com.
* The Funambol server does not deal correctly with relative start
times of alarms. They get replaced with a fixed, one-time alarm
(MB #7806).
* sync-UI in alpha 1 has a problem setting up new configs when
localization is used. LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 should work around
that, fix is in master branch (MB #8618)
--
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
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