[Kde-pim] Akonadi 4.13 testing issues

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Thursday 20 of March 2014 18:50:55 Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> On Thursday 20 of March 2014 15:14:08 you wrote:
> > All issues described are on a clean 4.13 beta 2 install and fully
> > reproducible
> > 
> > 
> > ISSUE 2: Authentication dialog blocks all Akonadi ressources
> > 
> >  If you have a ressource that can't log in on the server, it will block
> > 
> > akonadi from accessing all other ressources.
> > 
> >  This can be reproduced with Kmail: If akonadi cannot login on one server,
> > 
> > you will be prompted a dialog where you can choose to retry/canel the
> > operation. If you cancel, you can access all other resources again. During
> > the dialog is shown, you cannot access mails of other resources that are
> > available. This becomes problematic if the server takes long to report
> > back
> > that logging in was not successful, because it will make all other
> > resources unaccessible.
> 
> It's not as serious as described here :-) It only blocks a session that
> started the fetch, not all resources. I'm experimenting with adding a
> timeout to ItemRetriever. There's a danger though that when there's a
> long-lasting task running in the resource (large collection sync), the
> retrieval might timeout, which we don't want, but I think that's a
> reasonable trade-out for locking up forever when a resource goes nuts or
> something.
> 
> Proper fix would be enabling parallelism in session and Resources, something
> I want to look in for 4.14 or Frameworks.
> 
> > ISSUE 3: Imap, Kmail Mail folder, and Mbox resources do not make use of
> > "NotConfigured"
> > 
> >  Everytime you add a new Imap, Kmail Mail folder or Mbox resource, you
> >  will
> > 
> > get a "Broken resource" notification.
> 
> I fixed the IMAP resource few days ago and Laurent has fixed the maildir and
> KABC resources.
> 
> > ISSUE 4: Akonadi resources do not go online automatically, if Akonadi is
> > started when there was no connection
> > 
> >  If Akonadi is started and there is network connection, all resources are
> > 
> > online as expected. When you turn off and on the network access now, the
> > resources go online instantly after there is network connection again.
> > 
> >  But if you disconnect from all your networks, stop akonadi, and start
> > 
> > akonadi using "akonadictl start", the resources wont go online themselves.
> 
> I suspect this could be because we don't detect the initial state of
> network, so when resource starts, it is set online by ResourceBase, and
> then it when the resource implementation tries to connect, it finds out
> network is down and sets itself offline, which overrides network detection
> in ResourceBase. I'll fix it tonight.

s/ResourceBase/AgentBase/

> 
> Cheers,
> Dan

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Daniel Vrátil | dvratil at redhat.com | dvratil on #kde-devel, #kontact, #akonadi
KDE Desktop Team
Associate Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.

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