[Kde-pim] Fwd: Google SoC Project Idea: Kontact Exchange
Vincent Panel
yohonet at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 10:42:44 BST 2008
Hi,
Is it time to propose kontact-exchange project once again ? Now with
KDE4 and Akonadi (which were not really stable last year) ?
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
Some very interesting discussions went on last year and vic seemed to
be motivated !
Vincent
2007/4/12 Vic Fryzel <vic at shellsage.com>:
> Hello,
>
> Although my SoC project idea was not selected, I still think it would be very
> important to Kontact. I thought for sure it would have been selected, but I
> guess others had better ideas for KDE PIM that were more in line with a SoC
> project. Regardless, I'd like to pursue this project anyway. Would one or
> more people care to mentor me? I'm sure there are others significantly more
> familiar with Kontact and KDE development processes than I.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> --
>
> Vic Fryzel (vic at shellsage dot com)
> http://shellsage.com/
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>
>
>
> On Monday 26 February 2007 4:44:45 am Vincent Panel wrote:
> > On 2/26/07, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> > > FYI, this was sent to kde-devel at kde.org.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
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> > >
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Vic Fryzel <vic at shellsage.com>
> > > To: kde-devel at kde.org
> > > Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:14:54 -0500
> > > Subject: Google SoC Project Idea: Kontact Exchange
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'd very much like to contribute to KDE via the Google Summer of Code. I
> > > think that I have two good project ideas (the first of which is listed
> > > below), and have no problem putting forth the required effort to
> > > contribute features. I've already contributed patches to the KDE
> > > project, am an active Gentoo developer, and develop a lot of open source
> > > software in my spare time.
> > >
> > > Please take the time to review, comment on, and build on my proposal, and
> > > I very much appreciate any feedback. I'll submit it as soon as the web
> > > interface for proposal submissions is available.
> > >
> > > My preliminary project proposal for full Kontact Exchange integration
> > > follows:
> > >
> > > Who are you? What are you studying?
> > > My name is Vic Fryzel. I'm pursuing a B.S. and M.S. in Software
> > > Engineering.
> > >
> > > What exactly do you intend to do? What will not be done?
> > > It is my intent to bring the MS Exchange implementation in Kontact to be
> > > as feature-complete as Evolution. I intend for this to be included in
> > > KDE4. It is not my intent to affect any other features of Kontact that
> > > are unrelated to getting Exchange integration to work, unless a new
> > > feature is required by Exchange integration.
> > >
> > > Why are you the right person for this task?
> > > I'm the right person for the task because I have substantial open source
> > > software development experience, a significant will to see Kontact and
> > > KDE become more popular and widely used, and use both KDE and Evolution
> > > on a daily basis, so I know what's missing from Kontact. I'm also
> > > familiar with Qt and the KDE libraries.
> > >
> > > How many hours are you going to work on this a week?
> > > I'm prepared to work as many as 30-40 hours per week on this project. My
> > > other commitments include my full-time day job as a software engineer.
> > >
> > > Are you comfortable working independently under a remote supervisor or
> > > mentor? I'm comfortable working independently under a supervisor or
> > > mentor who is at a remote location. I'd set weekly goals for the
> > > project, and discuss these goals and my progess weekly (or less
> > > frequently based upon the requirements of the mentor) with my mentor.
> > > I've already had experience with this sort of thing in becoming a Gentoo
> > > developer, where a large number of the developers live in Europe, and I
> > > live in the U.S.
> > >
> > > What is your native language?
> > > My native language is English.
> > >
> > > Where do you live?
> > > I live in Rochester, NY, USA; a local mentor would be spectacular, but
> > > I've yet to meet a KDE developer from the area.
> > >
> > > To what extent are you familiar with the software you're proposing to
> > > work with?
> > > I'm very familiar with Kontact and KDE development in general. I've
> > > read the source code (I've already looked into further implementing
> > > Exchange integration in Kontact just in my spare time). I've begun to
> > > modify the source to perform better calendar Exchange queries, but have
> > > nothing patch-ready, although all of my work has been on the KDE trunk,
> > > so it is all going towards KDE4. I have used C++ for many work-related
> > > projects, and am familiar with Qt and the KDE libraries. I'm also very
> > > familiar with MS Exchange queries, and have written work-related
> > > applications to query Exchange servers for data such as one's mail
> > > folder/email information, and appointment/meeting information; this
> > > included the handling of meeting requests.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know a bit exchange as I've migrated a company from exchange 5.5 to
> > an exchange 2003 cluster.
> >
> > The major problem being that exchange uses natively protocols no one
> > has ever implemented under linux (even evolution) : X400 and X500. Of
> > course these are "microsoft" protocols which means they have probably
> > added proprietary, undocumented features to these protocols. Exchange
> > also uses imap, pop3 and webdav. But you can disable all three of them
> > and only outlook users will be able to use exchange. Evolution uses
> > webdav access, so they don't implement the native protocol either.
> >
> > The other problem is the calendar integration with the exchange
> > server. I think you should be able to keep a local copy of your
> > exchange calendar, but synchronize it with the server, so in the
> > current state, the best way to do this is via opensync and writing a
> > plugin for it.
> >
> > You have almost the same synchronization problem with contacts.
> >
> > I also notice some people sometimes use the "vote" mechanism of
> > outlook/exchange and kmail doesn't deal with it at all.
> >
> > One last thing is public folders : these are mail folders shared among
> > several people (and generally open read/write to a group of people).
> >
> > Now things that does work in the current kmail state :
> > - If imap is turned on, kmail deals with exchange rather well
> > - kmail is able to display meeting requests, deal with them (accept /
> > decline / tentative and send a response to the sender) and add the
> > meeting in your (local) calendar
> > - you can get your exchange contacts and access the exchange GAL if
> > you configure LDAP in the configuration page of kadressbook. But here,
> > there's another difficulty : for a NT domain, the GAL is on the
> > exchange server and for a 2003 domain, it's on the Domain Controllers
> > of the domain. It's possible you can get the domain controller by
> > querying the exchange server, but I don't know how to do it. The other
> > way to get it is by querying the domain in a samba-way (samba is able
> > to tell you the domain controller with only the domain name).
> >
> > I think an exchange wizard to configure all these pieces of kmail in
> > one go would be much appreciated, otherwise, you have to configure all
> > these things in kmail, then in kadressbook, then in korganizer.
> >
> > My two pennies...
>
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