[Kde-pim] Babbling Summary (Was: Kontact Site update)

[Dale Strickland-Clark]

Thanks for this. It's a good start.

Can we dig up anything from the last 18 months to fill the news gap we're 
going to have?

I'll have a dig around and see if I can find release dates and notes from some 
earlier releases.

Thanks

On Monday Dec 18 2006 17:04, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Monday, December 18, 2006 06:35:37 AM Dale Strickland-Clark wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm going to be bringing the Kontact web site up-to-date and looking
> > after it.
> >
> > I thought I start with the News section. A news section with frequent
> > updates (even only slightly relevant) makes a sites and its project look
> > active and busy which gives people confidence in it.
> >
> > The problem is I don't have a clue what's going on. So I need a bit of
> > help.
> >
> > The last news on the site is 2005 August 22.
> >
> > Could you please email me anything of interest since then?
> >
> > I want anything relating to:
> >
> >  * release schedules
> >  * milestones
> >  * significant deployments
> >  * partnerships
> >  * new developers
> >  * conferences
> >  * meetings
> >  * reviews/comparisons
> >  * etc.
>
> Babbling...  hope you can find some useful nuggets...
>
> Annual KDEPIM developer meeting will happen in early January 2007,
> to be held in Osnabrueck (sp?) Germany.
>
> Akonadi is the biggest new technology going on for KDEPIM4.
>
> Next Kontact (and Kontact components) will be released with KDE 3.5.6 in
> mid-January. A summary of changes:
>  + KMail templates
>  + KMail background filtering improvements
>  + KMail RecipientsEditor improvements
>  + KOrganizer year and incidence printing (and lots of other printing
> cleanups) + KOrganizer new command line options (--merge, --import, --open)
> + Kontact appointment and to-do summary menus for "edit', "delete", "mark
> completed" (to-dos only).
>  + KPilot updates (from CodeYard)
>  + KArm updates (from KDAB)
>  + A bunch of bugfixes and usability improvements
>
> We are looking for new contributors all the time.
>
> Two new developers, Dmitry Morozhnikov and Jonathan Marten, did all
> the work creating the new KMail templates feature for KDE 3.5.6.
> And another new contributor, Christian Schaarschmidt, made a bunch of
> bug fixes for 3.5.6, including many improvements for the KMail recipients
> editor. We also have patches from new contributors, BJ Blanchard, Thomas
> McGuire, going into the 3.5.6 release.   (there may be others... I don't
> want to leave anyone out)
>
> Also, Oral Timocin is working on a new Kontact summary view called
> "Planner" to replace the current Appointments and To-do summaries. 
> Hopefully, this will be ready for KDE 3.5.7.
>
> KDE4 porting is sorta stuck.  DCOP->D-Bus porting in KMail especially isn't
> easy. And we are waiting for Akonadi, which will mean some substantial
> re-writing of everything in the module.
>
> A good deal of work in our own mime library (kmime) for KDEPIM4 is
> progessing quite well. Volker is doing the hard work.  This library should
> entirely replace the old mimelib (3rd party).
>
> Cornelius should be able to provide a blurb about the OpenSync and
> KitchenSync work for KDEPIM4.
>
> I would think that the Osnabrueck meeting will generate much more,  maybe
> even some milestones.

-- 
Dale Strickland-Clark
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