[Kde-pim] KOrganizer

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Hi All!
Does anyone know this guy? 
It would be great to get him as a KOrganizer developer (judging from his 
homepage (http://manish-chaks.livejournal.com), he seems to be quite 
enthusiastic about KDE development and also to have programming experience 
(his day job seems to be as a software developer). 

As maintainer for such a central application like KOrganizer (I count kdelibs, 
konqueror, kicker, kwin, kmail, and kontact as really central parts of a 
desktop), however, I'm not sure that he is really the best choice, in 
particular since he has not so much experience with KDE development yet and 
no experience with KOrganizer or PIM development at all. 

Cheers,
Reinhold


Am Dienstag, 10. April 2007 schrieb Manish Chakravarty:
> Hi Reinhold,
>
> I would love to maintain/develop KOrganizer.
> I am the current maintainer of KaXUL (which i am working on to port to
> KDE4)+ am writing the KDE4 programming book.
> (http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Further_Information)
> I am monzie on #kde and #kde-devel
>
> Thanks
> Manish Chakravarty
>
> Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > (I have posted this to kde-core-devel a few days ago already, so, sorry
> > if you get this twice!)
> >
> > Dear fellow KDE developers!
> > As some of you might know, I'm the current maintainer of KOrganizer and
> > libkcal. Unfortunately, I've found it harder and harder during the recent
> > year or two to allocate enough -- or rather any -- time to KDE
> > development. This clearly shows in SVN trunk, where KOrganizer is far
> > from being ported to Qt4/KDE4 and libkcal didn't get the API overhaul
> > that we have all hoped for for KDE 4.
> > The reasons for this is mainly time shortness on my side (day job,
> > management of our choir "Jung-Wien", being a football referee, etc.).
> >
> > To be honest, I cannot responsibly act as maintainer for KOrganizer and
> > libkcal any more. Unfortunately, the once so active KDE PIM crew mostly
> > suffers from the same problems, so there is no logic successor for
> > maintainership among us, who is not already fully loaded with various
> > tasks.
> >
> > KOrganizer (and Kontact) is currently the best calendaring application
> > that I know, in particular together with the IMAP resource. You realize
> > this in particular, when you have to use it for real life work, like I
> > do. As a developer only, you don't realize what is important for
> > businesses and other stuff. E.g. printing is really important, but
> > KOrganizer beats everything else in that regard.
> >
> > Of course, there are some long-standing issues that KOrganizer really
> > needs: -) Exchange support. That's the #1 complaint from individuals who
> > want to use Kontact / KOrganizer for their dyatime job
> > -) A better month view. The current one is simply unusable and
> > user-unfriendly -) Support for recurring multi-day events
> > -) some other smaller things, which are not so vital.
> >
> > However, despite these small issues, all in all KOrganizer is a mighty
> > cool application and the best calendaring app that exists currently.
> >
> > Who is willing to take on the task to improve it even further? Of course,
> > I'll provide as much help as I can, preferrably on IRC or by email.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Reinhold



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Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
email: reinhold at kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
 * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/
 * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer
 * Chorvereinigung "Jung-Wien", http://www.jung-wien.at/
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