On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:37:49AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > On 19 April 2011 11:27, Alexander Larsson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 11:43 +0200, daniel g. siegel wrote: > >> another very important point is synchronisation. together with salomon > >> sickert we thought about how to solve this problem. basically we came up > >> with the idea of a self-replicating backend, like couchdb. if we then > >> could add support to the contact apps of other computer/devices like a > >> n900 or android, we would get synchronisation and conflict management > >> for free. > >> > >> then there is also the idea of having a webservice for the gnome > >> contacts app, where you can access your contacts over the internet. > >> > >> we are very interested in your opinions about this! > > > > I don't know really. Synchronization is a tricky subject, with complex > > protocols and risk for merge problems. Its almost always a source of > > weird problems. I don't think we want to have synchronization as some > > core part of the design. > > > > On the other hand, its important that there is some level of support for > > synchronizing contacts with e.g. phones. So, I guess we need to think > > about where it fits in. > > If you start to talk about synchronisation, please talk to Patrick > Ohly <[email protected]>. He maintains SyncEvolution that is > probably the only working PIM syncing tool that I know of, and it's > totally non-trivial.
Just recently there were some comment on sad state of sync: http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/04/13/the-continuing-state-of-contact-calendar-synchronization-suck/ http://luther.ceplovi.cz/blog/2011/04/synchronization-sucks/ Can we make synchronisation not suck? -- Tomasz Torcz "God, root, what's the difference?" xmpp: [email protected] "God is more forgiving." _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
