[Opensync-users] testing and documenting 0.4X

[Emanoil K. <del...@ya...>]

--- On Tue, 8/17/10, Chris Frey <cd...@fo...> wrote:

> From: Chris Frey <cd...@fo...>
> Subject: Re: [Opensync-users] Fwd: Google plugin for opensync
> To: "Quentin Denis" <que...@gm...>
> Cc: ope...@li..., eha...@ra..., ope...@li...
> Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 4:44 AM
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:04:51AM
> +0200, Quentin Denis wrote:
> > I have followed the discussion "SCM changes"; but I
> prefer to reply in this
> > thread since my contribution to the topic is not of a
> valuable experience.
> > All I notice is that you have a serious API and/vs
> Plugin problem, probably
> > also source of all wilting on contributor's side.
> 
> Probably true.  But there's some resistance, and it is
> not critical
> to a 0.40 release.  I can hack around it.
> 
> Here is what I think is needed for a 0.40 release:
> 
> 1) Developer documentation on how to compile the library,
> osynctool, and
>     all plugins... perhaps with helper
> scripts to automate this.
>     I am willing to share my setup details,
> if you want to document
>     this.  Currently I have opensync,
> osynctool, evolution2,
>     barry-sync, file-sync, google-calendar,
> vformat, and xmlformat
>     setup to compile very regularly. 
> More is better, but I'm currently
>     working on google-calendar.
> 
>     A lot of work was done recently on
> ldap-sync, so I'm suspecting
>     that ldap support is good, but I haven't
> had a chance to test it yet.
> 
> 

You are addressing many questions.I'm personally _very_ disappointed that syncing with linux is still not possible at least for me.
I am thinking of testing opensync (compile from source) and I need only three plugins kde, gnome and syncm (basically for a nokia phone)

I'm very experienced in coding, documenting and QA-ing (testing) as I am doing this on professional basis, so I'm willing to get somehow this working and possibly share my experience.

What I understood from this e-mail is that 0.40 is pretty ready for use. Is it? May be I could focus on the kde part. It's really annoying that there is no way to sync my phones. Where do I start best? I've looked around the project and started reading the whitepaper. As far as I see it is targeting kde 4. Is it true or I can try compiling svn code on kde 3.5?

Don't understand me wrong. I recognize the complexity of the issue and have a respect from your work, but since recently syncml is being widely used and google is also a big player I'm wondering how are the priorities set.

kind regards and thanks in advance