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

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> 
> 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.
> 

This was exactly my thought, too. In the future it would be cool for example
if you concentrate on creating vCalendar/iCalendar backends and for
the gui-part just provide a couple of calendar widgets which application
developers can customize and re-use easily. For my part the only problem
in adding a calendar solution to Columba is just the lack of a good
vCalendar/iCalendar parser.

It would be pretty cool to turn Columba in a complete Workgroup solution
which won't be possible in the near future without your backend 
libraries ;-)


> > 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.

Sounds great!


> 
> 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 don't want to blame anyone. For me it was totally clear that we
would use your vcard library in Columba. Tony and me, were talking
about this for some months now and I was asking him several times
when you are going to release a version usable for Columba. I actually
moved integration of your stuff to later dates on and on, nevertheless
a lot of people showed interest in a better addressbook and I always
told them to wait for the jpim guys...
Tony also send me screenshots (I actually hosted those screenshots
on our main news site for a couple of weeks) and he also send me
his code for re-viewing. So, this was probably a communication 
problem between Tony and you.


> 
> 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.
> 

This would be really great :-) 

Hope to hear from you really soon. I've posted this message to 
columba-devel, too. If you need help I suggest you post a message
to our list, I've at least one developer in my mind which was
pretty interested in working on the addressbook stuff. Maybe it
would be a good idea, to already start working with your code
on a different branch, to garanty a smooth transition.

Cheers,
Frederik