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

[Daniel G. <go...@b1...>]

Hi everyone,

On Tuesday 21 April 2009 05:03:32 pm Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I have been following OpenSync development for about two years, hoping
> to have sync between my Nokia 6288 and KDE-PIM (specifically,
> Kaddressbook and Korganizer, the contacts and calendar components).
> However, it seems that the rate of progress stands at about one issue
> closed per week (http://www.opensync.org/roadmap?show=all), and at
> that rate 0.41 ("Completing this milestone will lift the distribution
> packaging ban.") will be ready in around August 2010.

Thanks for the analyse - sounds pretty scary ...

> So in the most
> troll-free and understanding manner, I ask the community what I, as a
> user, can do to get my contacts on the phone in a stable, non-hacky
> manner. Should I switch to Windows / Outlook / Nokia's sync suite?
> Should I donate $20 to the Opensync project? Should I learn to program
> and fix it myself?

Money is always a tricky thing - we definitely should setup a some donate 
portal so we can support OpenSync developer to travel to meetings (which help 
the development!). But i have some doubt that donation in this amount of money 
really help to assign one developer full-time on OpenSync development ... 
setting someone up on full-time to do a quick OpenSync sprint would help to 
get things quickly done and released.

Anyway, actually i should spend time one fixing outstanding bugs - and 
original thought about not starting here a discussion, but:

Any volunteer who could setup such donate portal for the OpenSync project?

Also with regards to other replies:
I completely agree with Björn and Chris - we lack on core developers which fix 
outstanding issues which block 0.39 or 0.40 release.

For me things recently changed - last month i started with a new job at B1 
Systems. I'm working now from home, not any longer from a office. (Which 
requires lots of discipline to get actually things done). Of course i wasted 
in the beginning lots of productive time - and didn't managed to contribute to 
OpenSync at all in the last month. But i hope to get some things done today.

With regards, to the other replies: like hiring a developer:

If there are some serious request for (sponsored) project work i could try to 
assign this to trusted OpenSync core-developers.

As you can see on my signature, I'm still with FOSS development. I'm allowed 
to work full-time on OpenSync if I'm not assigned to a different project. The 
next week(s) I'm already assigned to a project. Of course you can contact me 
privately if you need to get a OpenSync based project done.

Best Regards,
Daniel

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