[Kde-pim] Project proposal

[Radek Z]

Hi,
I am new here and I was searching for some way to help.
I have seen that there is some job about POP3 which should
be done.
Is that correrct? Whom should i talk to about it?
BR
Radek

Dne 24. březen 2009 0:31 Thomas McGuire <mcguire at kde.org> napsal(a):

> Hi Bertjan,
>
> On Monday 09 March 2009 22:17:37 BERTJAN BROEKSEMA wrote:
> > As some of you already knew I will apply for a project at nlnet [1]. The
> > main goal of the project will be to create/port/finish the mbox/maildir
> > Akonadi resources, create a pop3 resource and create tests for the
> > resources using Igors test framework. Attached you'll find a very rough
> > first draft (most sections definitely need more work, especially the
> goals
> > and activity sections). Any comments, questions, suggestions or even
> > critics are appreciated.
>
> Although we already talked on IRC, here is a short summary so others can
> read
> it as well.
>
> All in all, a good proposal, although with a lot of blabla in the
> beginning,
> but I suppose that is needed for applying :)
>
> Now to the mbox resource: It would first create a mbox library, so it can
> be
> shared, like the maildir library. For example, kmailcvt, the mbox ioslave
> (who
> the hell uses this one!?), or even old KMail could be converted to use it.
>
> Then I would base an mbox resource on top of that library. Well, actually I
> would create a resource that can handle a mixed tree of maildir and mbox,
> because we need that anyway, for backward compatibility. Similar to what
> the
> "Local Folders" project proposal does.
>
> Also we said that POP3 should be an agent that fetches mail and puts them
> into
> Akonadi folders, e.g. a maildir folder. It should not be a resource, or at
> least not act as one. Rational is that POP3 is really for fetching only
> (even
> the RFC says that), and not a resource fit more into the usecase of
> something
> with a real storage behind it.
>
> But you said on IRC you want to drop the POP3 part? If that is true, I
> guess
> Constantin or someone else can take that over, if they want to.
>
> Doing tests of course is awesome, and should actually be mandatory for most
> bigger Akonadi projects.
>
> Ok, enough mail writing for today. I hope the above reflects the actual
> truth
> about what we talked about :)
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
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