[Kde-pim] Akonadi Calendar

[Sérgio Martins]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:36 PM, John Layt <jlayt at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 27 Oct 2011 05:50:46 David Narvaez wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 6:09 AM, David Narvaez
>>
>> <david.narvaez at computer.org> wrote:
>> > Hi all, sorry for the cross posting,
>> >
>> > I was about to work on fixes in the calendar events dataengine dealing
>> > with the Akonadi calendar support, and found this README[0] explaining
>> > a migration plan for the dataengine into Akonadi, etc. I wonder what's
>> > the status of that migration: if it's already in progress (and needs
>> > any help) or if it's still pending. Also, what would be the status of
>> > fixes to that feature? First fix in kdepimlibs and then port to the
>> > copied code in calendar dataengine? Or should fixes be frozen while the
>> > migration happens?
>> So after 12 days without an answer I'm assuming:
>>
>> 1) No one is taking care of that migration
>> 2) There's no freeze to fix bugs on that code
>>
>> I assume we are now too close to the freezes to try any drastic move,
>> but can we plan for November to pick this topic up? I could take care
>> of the migration if someone tells me how files should end up
>> structured in Akonadi.
>>
>> David E. Narváez
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for not picking up your first email, I've been offline a lot lately.
> Seeing as I'm the one who wrote that README I should fill things in a bit
> more.
>
> The original author of the data engine had to copy the Akonadi interface from
> kdepim as it was not available in kdepimlibs at the time.  I moved it to the
> subfolder and updated it with some bug-fixes [1] as well as overhauling the
> data engine itself.  I'm supposed to be keeping the code in sync but forgot
> before the last release, so we need to look at refreshing the copy before the
> next release.
>
> The intention has always been to move the Akonadi calendar interface into
> kdepimlibs so everyone could use it, but I don't know if this has been done
> yet.  Once done we can delete the copy and switch the data engine to the
> kdepimlibs version.
>
> Sergio, do you know the status of this?

I'm in the middle of cleaning kdepim/calendarsupport/ so we can move
it to kdepimlibs.
Sorry for not seeing your e-mail, lots of bugs and e-mails piled up
while on vacation :).


Regards,
Sérgio Martins