Re: [Opensync-users] One ticket per week?

[Jason G. <exp...@lo...>]

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 18:03 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I have been following OpenSync development for about two years, hoping
...
> asking because I have been waiting for a long time and it does not
> look like the wait is going to end anytime soon.

Thanks for raising this thread - it echoes my own perception of this
project, and I think it is useful for the developers to get a feel for
the user's experiences and perceptions.

I have spent many hours compiling/configuring/troubleshooting (from a
user's perspective) over the years with a number of mainstream phones,
and have never been able to get reliable sync'ing across contacts, notes
& todos.  I note that Fedora have recently attempted downgrades
including 0.38 and 0.36, and have now reverted to 0.22 with observations
on their devel list that plugins are unusable.

My sense of the project is that howtos, configuration guides, functional
status reports, design documentation, and functional stability have been
of a lower priority than internal re-architectures, changes to build
systems, new configuration formats, etc.  (Apologies if I'm off-target)
My point is that investment in documentation and stability on a reduced
plugin set would IMO pay-off rather quickly because it would reduce the
perceived barrier of entry for use, testing, and development.  Folk like
me would no longer need to reverse-engineer to figure things out, and
you'd attract more people who aren't prepared to reverse-engineer or
await responses on the mailing list.

I'm also tracking the scheduleworld alternative because it permits
sync'ing over bluetooth, and sits on the funambool stack, which seems to
be very mature and reliable.  syncevolution allows me to keep the phone
and evolution in sync.

I have had trouble with the older firefox plugins:

http://www.scheduleworld.com/jforum/posts/list/2200.page

and alas scheduleworld is closed source, so there is no scope to team up
on the code, although Mark is very responsive in his forum.

I note that a new edition of the firefox plugin has been released
recently that may work better, although I have not tried it yet:

http://www.scheduleworld.com/jforum/posts/list/1605.page

J.