Re: [Opensync-devel] Getting things back on track

[Paul E. <blu...@bl...>]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Daniel Gollub wrote:
> > I just read a blog posting [1] by one of the Akonadi developers about
> > some discussions that have gone on at their recent meeting. It seems for
> > now they have given up waiting for OpenSync and are looking at
> > alternatives. This is extremely unfortunate - historically I would have
> > considered the Akonadi project to be one of OpenSync's strongest allies.
> 
> Thats not new to me ... the kde-pim and akonadi developers stated this
>  several times the last weeks/months. Not quite sure how many of them
>  really checked if this true or not ...

No, they probably didn't. But to be fair unless you're on the inside of our 
project it's hard to tell what the status of it is. Even we don't know a lot 
of the time :)

> But what they're doing is "just" moving KitchenSync and libqopensync to
> playground, which is a development branch AFAIK. Which sounds reasonable to
>  me ... so no reason to get panic.

Maybe not a reason to panic, but it is surely not a good sign.

> In fact things changed for me in mid September and last weeks very
> dramatically, in terms of spare time. But i still try to stick with the
> project and invest much as time as possible an reasonable. But private
>  things come first ... i hope you understand that.

Of course. One must always have priorities, and personal life must come first.

> So you're completely right - and I also have concerns about the very low
>  BUS- factor [1] we have for OpenSync core development. If I disappear for
>  a while OpenSync development trunk sometimes freezes. 

Bus factor, this is a new term to me, but it does describe our situation very 
well. This is indeed what I would hope to improve. I'll check your other mail 
and respond there as well.

Thanks,
Paul