Re: Announcing ASynK v0.2.0 - directional sync for BBDB to Google and Outlook
Thank you JJ, On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:25 PM, JJ bbdb-info_lists.sourceforge@sumou.com wrote: Haven't explored what format the Android contact database is. Would it be possible to extent ASynK to sync directly between BBDB and the phone's DB? Hm, I see where you are coming from. The framework is in place to add any number of database connectors and reuse the sync engine. A few python interfaces need to be implemented. That said, it appear to that writing directly to the phone contacts DB is an extremely niche use case, and I'd do it only if I felt the urge to really understand how the Android database format worked. It's not in my flow, and it would be a pain for me to keep testing it. I am happy to accept patches, though, if you would like to have support and can keep it working. If not, I assume I could export and import from the phone's DB to a vcard format, could you then expand ASynK to sync a vcard folder with BBDB? This, on the other hand, is potentially of greater general interest, and should be easier in principle. I could add this to the to be implemented feature list after I explore the details of vcard a bit more, and I get some more user feedback about the current code quality. Cheers, -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: Announcing ASynK v0.2.0 - directional sync for BBDB to Google and Outlook
On May 14, 2012 8:54 PM, Sam Steingold s...@gnu.org wrote: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.emacs.bbdb.user as well. * Sriram ET. xneen@tznvy.pbz [2012-05-14 09:57:56 +0500]: Also, please note that you only need to run autoconf if you want to build the documentation. It is of no value otherwise. I suggest you dive right into the documentation section titled 'Using ASynK' I find reading raw texinfo files hard. You could try the project website at http://karra-asynk.appspot.com where you may find the docs in a format of your liking. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) X 11.0.11103000 http://www.childpsy.net/ http://thereligionofpeace.com http://www.memritv.org http://truepeace.org http://mideasttruth.com http://dhimmi.com A language that does not change the way you think is not worth learning. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: Announcing ASynK v0.2.0 - directional sync for BBDB to Google and Outlook
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Sam Steingold s...@gnu.org wrote: * Sam Steingold f...@tah.bet [2012-05-13 22:36:21 -0400]: * Sriram ET. xneen@tznvy.pbz [2012-05-14 07:26:29 +0500]: https://github.com/skarra/ASynK.git $ autoconf configure.ac:9: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. configure.ac:16: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL $ If you insist on building the docs yourself, you could try the following from the root of ASynK: $ autoreconf $ automake --add-missing $ ./configure $ make -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Announcing ASynK v0.2.0 - directional sync for BBDB to Google and Outlook
I am happy to announce release v0.2.0 of ASynK. You can find documentation and links to source and pre-packaged bundles at the project page at: http://karra-asynk.appspot.com/ I would be glad to respond to issues raised here or as issues on the github page (links on the project page). The rest of the email gives a little more info on ASynK. ASynK is a flexible Contacts synchronization program that works with a variety of Contacts software such as Microsoft Outlook, Google Contacts, and Emacs BBDB. Some of the key features of ASynK are: 1. Allows bidirectional sync of Contact across any pair of sources from: Google Contacts, Microsoft Outlook, and Emacs BBDB - what we call PIM DBs (for Personal Information Management Databases) 2. Is the *only* two-way synchronization software for BBDB known to be work. So if you are keen to keep BBDB content synchronized with a mobile device or Outlook, look no further. 3. Works on Windows, MacOS X, and Linux 4. Synchronization is granular to the level of 'Folders', i.e. you can synchronize one folder of Google Contacts with a Outlook folder (on Windows at work, say), and another Google folder in the same account with BBDB (On your Mac, say) 5. The infrastructure is there to add more database and item types (i.e. tasks, notes, etc.), but currently only Contact synchronization for Google Contacts, BBDB and Outlook supported 6. It is free software, and released under the GNU AGPL (Affero GPL) version 3 Happy to take feedback. Cheers, Sriram -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: Announcing ASynK v0.2.0 - directional sync for BBDB to Google and Outlook
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Sam Steingold s...@gnu.org wrote: $ autoconf configure.ac:9: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. configure.ac:16: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL What version of autconf do you have? For the above to work you will need recent versions of autoconf - 2.64, and automake 1.11 I have updated the FAQ section with this question. -Sriram -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: Announcing ASynK v0.2.0 - directional sync for BBDB to Google and Outlook
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Sriram ET. karra@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Sam Steingold s...@gnu.org wrote: $ autoconf configure.ac:9: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. configure.ac:16: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL What version of autconf do you have? For the above to work you will need recent versions of autoconf - 2.64, and automake 1.11 I have updated the FAQ section with this question. Also, please note that you only need to run autoconf if you want to build the documentation. It is of no value otherwise. I suggest you dive right into the documentation section titled 'Using ASynK' -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: BBDB 3 and lookout.el (importing .csv file into bbdb contacts)
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Johnny yggdra...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Hi all, I have tried for some time to get lookout.el to import my contacts from a csv-file into bbdb, but am on the verge of giving up, so before finally ditching the attempts (again); Is there *anyone* out there that have successfully migrated .csv contacts into bbdb (bbdb 3), and how? I have not migrated a CSV, but... I am about 7-10 days from announcing a two way sync tool for BBDB/Outlook/Google Contacts, i.e. you can do bi-directional sync between any two folders across any two different databases. I currently use it to sync my contacts across Android/Outlook/BBDB, but the whole system is not in a state where anyone can figure out all the pieces and usefully deploy it to solve their problems. There's just a bit of typing up the loose ends. If you are interested in trying out a bleeding edge version of my code, it is available at: https://github.com/skarra/Gout Documentation is very incomplete, but if you would like to try this out, we could talk offline and I can help you get it set up. Please note I have made an earlier release which only did Outlook - Google and hence I called it Gout (for Google-Outlook sync). The f_tasks branch contains BBDB support. Release v0.2, it will be called ASynK. Cheers, Karra -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: On Tue Apr 10 2012 SourceForge.net Support wrote: There's a link at the top of the project summary page indicating the new location now. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbdb/ Dear Sourceforge maintainers, Thanks for putting in the link on that page. We have noticed that the following sourceforge page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/ comes up highly on searches for BBDB on popular search engines, and is the first point of call for users looking for information on BBDB. Could we trouble you one more time, and request you to insert the same link that you inserted earlier, on the http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/ as well? thank you, Sriram -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: On Wed Apr 11 2012 Sriram ET. wrote: Roland, Just fyi - the first result on a Google Search is this page: http:// bbdb.sourceforge.net/ Do you think it makes sense to request that to be taken down? I do not know how google comes up with its ranking. Yet I do not believe it would make sense to take down the old site. I expect this would disagree with sourceforge's general policies -- and I consider it useful that people can rely on sourceforge in this context. If a project suddenly disappears from its old place, this doesn't explain anything to anybody what has happened. If someone ignores the hint on sourceforge that BBDB development has shifted, we cannot help him or her beyond that. We should make it easy for people to find relevant and recent information about BBDB. The page that the sourceforge maintainers have edited with a link to savanah (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbdb/) does not appear on the first page of a Google or a Bing search for BBDB. You are ignoring the fact that http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/ is the main page in the mind of anyone who tries to find BBDB. They will not be ignoring your hint. There is no way for them to even see it. From the point of view of a new user, what we have just accomplished, amounts to nothing. We do not have to take down the old site. I was only trying to get you to insert the same hint on the old site as well. -Karra -- Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah
Roland, Just fyi - the first result on a Google Search is this page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/ Do you think it makes sense to request that to be taken down? -Sriram On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: On Tue Apr 10 2012 SourceForge.net Support wrote: There's a link at the top of the project summary page indicating the new location now. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbdb/ Thanks a lot! Roland -- Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/ -- Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: Sourceforge Page!
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Leo sdl@gmail.com wrote: As far as I know, there is only one effort to devel BBDB 3 namely from Roland. Barak's github repo is just a mirror. Is there a public view of Roland's tree available somewhere? -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: Need ID and Granular timestamp
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Sriram ET. karra@gmail.com wrote: I am new to BBDB internals although I have used BBDB extensively. It appears to me that there are two important pieces missing that are needed for incorporating aforementioned sync support: 1. A unique record ID 2. Granular time zone-d timestamp It wasn't much work to make the above changes, so I went ahead with them anyway. I have uploaded my mods on github after first importing a version from CVS into git. There are two commits I would like to submit for inclusion in the mainline: 1. UUID generation library: https://github.com/skarra/BBDB/commit/eded2c882196202e818bc781046fba67013fefe2 2. File Format version 7 support: https://github.com/skarra/BBDB/commit/2b56c315c14c1b0452c81331c256bca49110014d If you want diffs to be directly mailed to this list I can do that. Cheers, -Karra -- Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: Sourceforge Page!
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Marc Croteau mdcrot...@gmail.com wrote: The install file of the BBDB V3 git download requests that bugs, comments etc be submitted to the bbdb-info mailing list. See below: It does not answer my question (if that was even the intention :-0) The sourceforge BBDB page is the top hit on Google for BBDB. And on that page there is no mention of the more recent BBDB V3. So my point is people may not even come to know about V3 from a simple google search. I suggest we take down the sourceforge site or at least link to the BBDBv3 page from there. That's all. -Sriram * Sriram ET. karra@gmail.com [2012-04-04 20:15:10 +0530]: Oh my... after reading a recent message on this list I realized there is a version BBDB v3 out there... and it's not linked to on the 'main' sourceforge page (http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/) which is still the first result on a google search for BBDB! Does anyone have access to that page so there can atleast be a redirect to the nongnu.org page where BBDB v3.0 is available? -- Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: BBDB V3 export
2012/3/13 Ted Zlatanov t...@lifelogs.com With CouchDB, I can easily export individual records from JSON back to the BBDB vector format. I'll do similar work for file and other backends. I'll make it possible to use LDAP and SQLite but I wouldn't use them, personally. LDAP requires a very specific infrastructure and SQLite would have all the complexity of CouchDB with none of the network accessibility :) The backend formats were just examples. If one backend is implemented in a modular way with the existing BBDB 'front end api' as used today in Emacs, that will open it up for further extension and other backends on a 'need basis'. I, for one, would definitely find it useful. The interesting part is serving the BBDB records out in other formats. At least for CardDAV it will require more than simple XML records, unfortunately. I can easily present the records in XML, JSON, CSV... To start, it would save me a lot of time if I had a function to convert a BBDB record to alist and then import it back, or a description of the BBDB schema (what each vector offset represents). Is that already available? I would guess so... I generally don't know the BBDB insides, though I will by the end of this project :) The BBDB info page has the following description of the file format and vectors. I suspect this is what you are looking for. Right? http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/bbdb.html#SEC67 -Sriram -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
State of the art of Bi-directional sync for BBDB and other contact apps
Hi, I am trying to determine there is a recommended utility that does bi-directional sync between BBDB and any of the other popular contact apps like Outlook, Gmail, Apple Address Book, etc.? I see a number of export and import, which is typically uni-directional. Just checking what is out there, before I think of any heavy self-customization. Thanks, Sriram -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
