Re: [Columba-devel] calendar/chat prototypes and future directions

[Frederik D. <ma...@fr...>]

>
> First of all (for me!) we should work a little bit more on our adressbook
> (ldap support...). Then I love the idea of an nice calender which I can
> combine with my mails in several ways.
>

Celso told me once that he was interested in LDAP support. He might take
over this.


>
> For adressbook we should support vcal on local file, ldap and active
> directory from windows.

We have a local xml-file for our addressbook already. There's no need to
have a vCard-text-file implementation. Its more important to have nice and
complete import/export functionality. Our local xml-backend and the ui
already support the complete vCard standard. Only the import/export needs
some more time.

Actually, all the code is there. We have the complete Columba data model
and we have the vCard model from jpim. The only missing thing todo is
mapping those together.

Please, take a look into the sourcecode and you will notice how easy that
actually is. Maybe, you can finish this functionality! Social pressure,
social pressure ;-)

>
> But for me our main goal is to improve and stablelize our mail client. We
> have many small problems which need to fix, cleanup code, change to jdk
> 1.5, adding more security stuff (my part :-)) ...
>

I strongly agree. Our email/addressbook functionality should be rock
solid. This is the foundation the users will use everyday. This is also
the reason why they might give "some prototype" a try.

Think we are currently heading in the right direction, looking at the
polishing features we introduced for the 1.2 release. Thinking of
BerkleyDB headercache, Lucene-based full-text indexing, lots of IMAP speed
and stability improvements, full vCard support, etc.

Cheers,
-Frederik