OpenSync Developer Meeting 2008 - Berlin

• Location: KDAB Office (Berlin, Kreuzberg)
• Participants: Bertjan Broeksema, Christopher Stender, Daniel Gollub, Felix Möller, Juha Tuomala, Michael Bell, Till Adam, Tobias König, Volker Krause
• Sponsored by: KDE e.V.

• Minutes: meetings/2008Berlin/Minutes?

Agenda/Schedule?

Day	Time	Topic	Responsible	Slides
Friday	15.00 - 15.30	Get together! Introduction||All (who already arrived)
15.30 - 17.00		KDE-PIM / Akonadi	Tobias Koenig, Volker Krause	attachment:Akonadi-OpenSync-2008.pdf
17.00 - 18.00		OpenSync project - Introduction/Status? Update	Daniel Gollub	attachment:OpenSync.pdf
18.00 - 20.00		(Dinner/late Hotel Check-in)
20.00 - 21.00		OpenSync 0.40 - Whats different?	Daniel Gollub
21.00 - ??.??		(Hacking Session/BoF?)
??.?? - !!.!||(Pub visit?)
Saturday	10.00 - 11.00	KPilot	Bertjan Broeksema
11.00 - 12.30		libsyncml (Part 1 - Theory)	Michael Bell	attachment:libsyncml.pdf
12.30 - 13.30		(Lunch)
13.30 - 15.00		libsyncml (Part 2 - Praxis)	Michael Bell	attachment:libsyncml.pdf
15.30 - 16.30		OpenSync Plugin HowTo	Michael Bell	attachment:plugin.pdf
16.30 - 18.30		BoF: OpenSync on the Desktop	Daniel Gollub
18.30 - 20.00		(Dinner)
20.00 - 21.00		BoF: PIM Formats (vCard, iCalendar/vCalendar) - join forces/common codebase	Christopher Stender
21.00 - ??.??		(Hacking Session/BoF?)
??.?? - !!.!||(Pub visit?)
Sunday	11.00 - 12.00	Postmortem OpenSync 0.30 development cycle	Daniel Gollub
12.00 - 13.00		Ticket #709	Felix Möller
13.00 - 14.00		(Dinner)
14.00 - 15.00		What's next on the Syncing Front? Schedule further proceedings - defining Milestones	Daniel Gollub
15.00 - 16.00		(BoFs ????)
??.?? - !!.!||Go Home||

Collecting Ideas

• Frontend/UI in general (scheduled: BoF: OpenSync on the Desktop)
  • define: What's the duty of OpenSync and what the Frontend/UI is suposed to do
  • discuss: generic D-Bus Interface to claim by Frontends/UI to provide common Sync interface (inspired by: BlueZ PasskeyAgent API, org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver, ...)
  • define: one-way Synchronization Group - aka. Backup Group
• KDE 4
  • Akonadi integration (as plugin)
  • GUI integration (KitchenSync? - dgollub)
  • KitchenSync
    • implement capabilities discovery, if possible transparent
    • adapt to !OSyncPluginConfig API
    • use Solid API for detecing devices - e.g. Bluetooth, USB, ...
• OpenSync API (scheduled: OpenSync 0.40 - Whats different)
  • versioning
  • reduce number of public interfaces
  • API documentation
  • Python wrapper
• Capabilities & Merger (scheduled: OpenSync 0.40 - Whats different)
  • review
  • what gets NOT merged yet?
  • problems with current XMLFormat
  • DXS/GetHotNewStuff infrastructure (?)
  • dicuss: make Merger interface indepdent of XMLFormat
• XMLFormat
  • problems with attributes?
  • split XMLFormat plugin out of OpenSync tree? maintance?
• vformat plugin (scheduled: BoF: PIM Formats)
  • status
  • whats missing?
  • common code bases? libical?  http://freeassociation.sourceforge.net/
• libsyncml (schedlued: libsyncml talks)
  • Samsung integration
  • OBEX Server integration (Maemo and OpenMoko)
  • libsyncml high level API
  • syncml-ds-tool
• Enhancements for ticket #709 (felixmoeller, ) (scheduled: Ticket #709)
  • involve more people
  • periodically status updates
  • more documentation
    • HowTos?
    • man pages
    • example configurations
    • guide how to submit good bug reports
• OSyncUpdater - Update path 0.2x to 0.40 (scheduled: OpenSync 0.40 - whats different)
  • which configuration very likely to change in future?
  • is the Archive a problem?
  • SlowSync required after update of OpenSync?
• Conversion Path
  • clean up conversion path code
  • review and document the conversion path process
  • how capasulator format work
  • special plugin: file-sync
• OpenSync project management (scheduled: postmortem 0.30 cycle)
  • sepearte plugin release from OpenSync releases?
  • release cycles
  • opensync.org infracstrucute, administration, ...
  • trac
  • mailinglists, moderators
  • ChangeLog
  • postmortem: 0.3x development cycle