I'm Doomed

Srini mailed the list so it's official now: I've just joined the Evolution team as Addressbook Maintainer. I've a terrible feeling this will be the end of me, but I'm sure the journey will be fun! Thanks to Srini for asking me to join the team, it's a great pleasure to be invited to maintain such a high-profile component as Evolution. I've not really touched the code of Evolution itself, focusing more on Evolution Data Server, but that is good because Srini has been focusing more on Evolution so together we should make a good team.

My primary goal is to merge and polish the DBus port of EDS. The current plan is to attempt to land the port in time for GNOME 2.20, although disabled by default. Hopefully enough developers will be foolish brave enough to enable it and report any bugs they find, so that we might even be able to enable it by default in GNOME 2.20. This is a tight plan but it might just be achievable.

NP: Music City Soul, Beverley Knight

19:30 Friday, 18 May 2007 [#] [computers] (10 comments)

Posted by Tommi Komulainen at Fri May 18 21:07:38 2007:
Well, I've had the pleasure of hacking GtkMenu a little bit recently. I'm only dreading for the moment someone comes to me saying "You touched it, you own it" ...
Posted by Matthew Barnes at Fri May 18 21:07:52 2007:
Congratulations Ross!  We need you.
Posted by Ross at Fri May 18 21:11:57 2007:
Tommi, dude, it was yours months ago.  You just don't know it yet...
Posted by Ross at Fri May 18 21:12:11 2007:
Matthew: thanks!
Posted by Leonardo F. Fontenelle at Fri May 18 22:37:10 2007:
I've being following Pimlico with great interested, and as a GNOME user I very happy you'll be working on Evolution too.
Posted by Leonardo F. Fontenelle at Fri May 18 22:39:06 2007:
... with great interest ... I am very happy [and now ashamed] ...
Posted by andre at Sat May 19 00:09:48 2007:
welcome to the party... another maintainer to nag evil-grin.
no, seriously: great!
Posted by iain at Sat May 19 00:10:18 2007:
Haahaahaahaa
Posted by Xavier Claessens at Wed May 30 19:33:37 2007:
Hi,

I'm working on empathy [1] and I want to integrate the contact list with evolution's address book. Nokia released eds-sync, a utility to sync eds with telepathy contact lists. That's really a great software and I want to use it in empathy.

The only problem I'm facing is eds-sync needs eds-dbus... So I'm very happy to see you are working on merging it upstream !!

If there is anything I can do for help please tell me.

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Empathy
Posted by Ross at Thu May 31 09:04:21 2007:
Xavier: I'll happily accept patches if you want to make it build now, or you can wait for me to get around to this.

The EVC_ defines can be copied from eds-dbus into eds-sync, and as of last night eds-sync depends on functions in eds-dbus but they can be trivially checked for at configure time and an alternative used.

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