[Kde-pim] Support for Scalix groupware

[Till Adam]

On Saturday 28 July 2007 21:10, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Saturday 28 July 2007 15:18, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > during the last months I worked with help from Trolltech on support
> > for the Scalix groupware server (http://www.scalix.com).
> >
> > The Scalix groupware is similiar to Kolab, so it stores all contacts,
> > events and notes as email attachments on an IMAP server. However they
> > don't use Cyrus IMAP server with all the nice features like
> > annotations but use their own implementation instead.
> >
> > Since the concept is similiar to Kolab I implemented the support on
> > top of the existing IMAP groupware solution, namely KMail accessed
> > via DCOP.
> >
> > Like already mentioned Scalix handles some features differently than
> > Kolab, so I had to add some hacks [tm] to get it working.
> >
> > The following KDE-PIM components are affected:
> >
> >   - kio_imap4 [smaller changes]
> >   - KMail [bigger changes]
> >   - KOrganizer [smaller changes]
> >   - kresources/wizards [new code and some smaller changes]
> >
> > I'll send some additional mails in a minute with the patches attached
> > and an explaination of the changes.
> >
> > For the maintainers of the affected components: Please check the
> > patches and tell me whether it is ok to commit them to the KDE 3.5
> > branch.
>
> I'm sorry, but I cannot give my approval for patches clearly violating
> the deep-freeze of the KDE 3.5 branch.
>
> Quoting Allen's message from 2007-06-01:
> > To quote coolo:
> > "No more features, no more string changes, no more docu changes....
> > Bug fixes are allowed and after some time we'll do another maintenance
> > update 3.5.8 - e.g. in september."
>
> Obviously, your changes do not comply to this. I suggest to create a
> different branch similar to the enterprise branch. Maybe you can even
> put your stuff in the enterprise branch. Talk to Till or Volker or
> whoever maintains the enterprise branch.

I do, and yes, we can talk about putting this into enterprise branch. It seems 
like the appropriate place and target audience for this to me.

Till

-- 
Till Adam -- till at kdab.net, adam at kde.org
KDAB, Platform-independent software solutions
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