Re: [Jpim-devel] Re: next release of jpim

[Dieter W. <di...@wi...>]

Frederik,

> You are of course welcome to use our addressbook code, but sadly from a
> technical point of view, you can't :-(
> Our addressbook makes intensive use of our core framework. The core 
> framework
> provides an empty frame, with a couple of menuentries, etc. The 
> addressbook
> just plugs itself into the frame and adds its specific menu-entries - 
> same goes
> for the toolbar.
> We have a plugin-infrastructure we use for our Folder (these are the 
> contact
> store's in Columba and can be compared to a mailbox), not talking about
> all the other smaller stuff.
>
> So, it will be pretty hard to get something usable for you out of the 
> addressbook
> without also using our core infrastructure.

Well, I supposed that the view part will always be the most difficult 
element.
My suggestion to Tony was to build reusable components (beans) instead 
of complete dialogs or
addressbook applications.
I know that it is hard to work on things in the background, but I think 
that should be the direction to go.

>
>> The best scenario is to give us a few weeks, and then join the 
>> development team of jpim and work on testing and integration. A new 
>> coder (Stig) has joined the project and will improve jpim a lot, but 
>> there is a need of a project leader to put some deadlines, and pull 
>> the strings for a while in order to go for an alpha - beta release.
>> Tony,
>> To summarize:
>>  Code is usable and gets mature.
>>  If your AddressBook moves to jpim, you could get some load off your 
>> hands.
>>  A project-leader is required to put some deadlines
>

> We are planning to release 0.12.0 on 20.July. Afterwards we really 
> want to
> move to your stuff. What we need/want is a vcard-parser with the 
> possibility to
> load/save it to/from a file and the contact editing dialog.

This should be possible without much problems.

> I don't have the time to lead another project but you should probably 
> consider
> to announce a job on the sourceforge site to get people to know that 
> you
> need more manpower.

There is no need to take over leadership. I am still taking care of 
jpim, although I have slowed down a bit
due to the fact that I also have other projects going on as well as 
personal issues.
I am taking decisions and I will do take care of deadlines and releases 
for the moment.
Another fact is that until recently nobody was even remotely interested 
in jpim......

Open-Source without community is dead, thus don't blame me.

> I would recommend you just create a jpim.jar containing your vcard 
> backend
> and release it (open-source == release early, release often).
> We are creating open-source software, so nobody expects that your 
> libary
> works perfectly. Just do a release wether its alpha quality or not and 
> see
> what happens :-)

I think I will manage to do so soon. I have been taking care of the 
last changes to the model (due to the preferred items)
recently. I will put up a deadline for 20 of July, with a high 
probability to be able to finish it earlier.


Regards,
Dieter