kde-pim dev needed, for a sponsored open source effort, to remove akonadi

[Ian Douglas]

On Sunday, 18 March 2018 12:37:35 AM SAST Paul Vixie wrote:

> Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Saturday, 17 March 2018 15:45:31 GMT Paul Vixie wrote:
> >> A few years ago i spent a couple of hours trying to build kde-pim from
> >> sources, so that i could [...] propose improvements in the form of code
> >> changes. i failed.
> > 
> > Have you thought of trying on a Gentoo system? Everything is compiled from
> > sources - even the compilers - so all the code and logs are easily
> > available.

FWIW I'm running Gentoo, if anyone wants some logs I'll be happy to try to 
help. Can't remember issues compiling Kmail/Akondadi, but do remember the new 
versions causing assorted user issues... 

> that question doesn't even come up if what's here today is pretty
> unusable. brownian motion, up to just below the point where the code no
> longer compiles, would not be worse.
> 
> therefore the operable question is, why make it harder to fix than it
> was to break?

Like Paul, I depend on Kmail (email -> business critical) so I would prefer if 
any fixes didn't break things further... :-)

Last updates in Jan broke several things worse than before, I think the BIG 
problem is that mail is now stored (POP3 -> maildir) somewhere else than 
before and THAT has knock-on effects which breaks other things. Like not being 
able to open or delete older mails. Etc.

If someone can please tell me where my new mails are stored... pretty please?

Thanks, Ian


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