[Opensync-users] Roadmap

[Armin B. <arm...@de...>]

Hi,

I just want to give a quick update about the current status of opensync
and what will be done in the near future:



We now finally released opensync 0.19 which is a major update, mainly
due to the introduction of an ipc between the engine and the plugins.
Libsyncml 0.4.1 was also released now.

Parallel to opensync 0.19, there was a lot of development on the
opensync devel branch, which will address the problems that 0.19
currently has. This branch is already pretty stable, but no final
release date can be given at the moment. But a first release of the
dev-branch (labeled 0.30) will be made not too far in the future.

Until 0.30 is released, the current trunk will be updated with bugfixes.
So we will problably make a 0.20 release of the trunk in the future for
these bugfixes.



The work on libsyncml focuses on providing support for all mobile
phones, which are having problems at the moment, as well as adding some
missing features like full support for syncml 1.2 and md5 auth.


Oh, and something in private matters:

sorry that i have been so quiet on the list in the last weeks / months.
I had a lot of work to do for university. Besides writing my exams i
also had to finish my "Studienarbeit" (similar to a bachelor thesis
maybe). I will now try to start my diploma thesis so i can finally
finish my studies.

If your interested in what i have been doing in my bachelor thesis:


The title was (roughly translated) "Design of a omnidirectional,
holonomic robotic platform". So i had to design, build and control a
robot which had an holonomic drive. A omnidirectional drive can go in
any direction (even sideways), but is often limited with the
trajectories that can be driven. A holonomic drive is also a
omnidirectional drive, but can basically drive any trajectory.

The application for this robot is in the field of wide-ranging
telepresence (think about a robot in a dangerous environment controlled
by a humen operator somehwere else) as a haptic display (so you can
actually feel the forces that the telerobot experiences). One scenario i
was testing in my study was a virtual labyrinth, which could be
navigated using my robot and where the forces on the robot (walls, a
spring, damping) could actually be felt.

In case you want to know more, you can download my paper here:
http://www.arminbauer.org/Studienarbeit.pdf (in german)

Best Regards,
Armin