Re: [Opensync-devel] What can I do? Where could I start?

[Quentin D. <que...@gm...>]

Hi Charles,

Let me welcome you to the OpenSync developers team! Since I am the
first to reply on your mail, please consider my suggestions as being
personal ones. In fact, the OpenSync team has suffered severe
management issues and lacks some dynamic today because of outdated
scheduling and lost objectives or motivation. Therefore we don't have
a clear roadmap for now. Emanoil and myself are the newest member of
the team and together with Chris Frey we try to reorganize the project
and to redefine objectives.

So far to the introductory status update. In my opinion, the most
important things to work on today are the following:
- fix the slow sync issue in the core engine
- port the missing plugins from API 0.22 to 0.40 (gnokii, etc...).
There is a guide written by Chris somewhere in the wiki and the
mailing-archives.
- decide how we solve the SyncML issue: libsyncml, libsynthesis or Buteo

Maybe there is still work to do on the documentation, I did not check
this out, but the Wiki certainly needs a refresh/update of its
content!

I hope this gives you a good start, more will follow from the active
developers once they are available again!

And after all, happy new year!

Best regards,
Quentin

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:53 PM,  <Ope...@ca...> wrote:
> Hello  :-)
>
> I am interested in helping the OpenSync project.  I have read the
> http://www.opensync.org/wiki/join/developer page and the pages it links.  I
> have browsed the last ~18 months of opensync-users and opensync-devel.  Now
> I am wondering what to do next.
>
> 20 years ago I was a fluent C developer.  Today I am a fluent bash scripter
> and would like to learn python.  I am effective at documentation.
>
> There is a huge amount to learn to get up to speed with a project the size
> of OpenSync.  Where to start?  Are there any relatively self-contained
> components that need documenting so I could both begin familiarisng and
> contribute?
>
> Best
>
> Charles
>
>
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