Re: [Opensync-devel] Synchronizing a nokia phone over bluetooth

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

Hi, Maarten,

welcome to opensync. Though I'm not authorized to speak in the name of the project management, I would like to give you some information for the start.

--- On Tue, 1/25/11, Maarten Blomme <maa...@gm...> wrote:

> 
> For the past week I've been trying to sync my phone's
> calendar (nokia 
> 3120) over bluetooth with my google-calendar.

Some of us have been trying to do this for quite a lot of time. I jumped into the project few months ago, because there was a need to support the project. Since then few things have been done, that are very promising but still the API has changed and most of the plugins need an update to the current API.
So here are the major fields where help is needed.

- syncml
 Someone needs to take over the libsyncml support and preferably the syncml-plugin. The current developer is looking forward to hand over the project. He will further support libwbxml for which he is releasing a stable version.
 So the major issue is with the syncml support and plugin currently.

- Another major field is opensync internal. I can not say here anything specific, but there is known problem with slow-sync that is blocking a stable release.

- many of the plugins need update and support

- you can read some of the threads to have more detailed impression.

My personal goal is to help the project release a version for current 0.40 API, so that it can join the testing cycle of some of the major linux distributions (i.e. debian). It is then more likely that such a release can become stable, but it needs developers that would be ready to response to bug requests accordingly.

I am trying to sync nokia 5530 (syncml-obex) with akonadi (kde4) or kdepim (kde3)

> 
> First I tried the version of opensync that is packaged with
> Fedora 14, 
> but it is way out of date (because the current release is
> not stable or 
> something?) and gives me all kind of terrible errors.
> 
> Then I compiled everything from svn and tried again with 
> syncml-obex-client and gnokii-sync:
> - syncml-obex-client does not appear to support events? It
> did in the 
> old Fedora version.

very pity, I am planning to look into this next.

> - gnokii-sync comes with an invalid (for the old API?)
> config

Quentin just started working on the gnokii-sync plugin, but it's not in svn

> 
> As a C/C++ programmer I am very interested in making this
> work, perhaps 
> you could guide me in the right direction or explain what
> would have to 
> be done to make one of these solutions work?

Unfortunately syncing is not that easy as it seems, but if you are willing to join a long term project, we all believe has a lot of potential, then you are very welcome to do this here.

You can start reading the wiki and also pay attention to http://www.opensync.org/wiki/devel.

regards