Hi.
We're preparing for 0.9. I blogged about it
(http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4107), but I've include a copy of that blog
entry here. Read below for the details, but the short version:
If there is something you need in 0.9, let me know ASAP..
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Blog follows:
OpenChange is a project to implement the Microsoft Exchange / Outlook
protocols, and we're creeping up on the 0.9 release. For those not familiar
with it, the aim is to be wire-level compatible, so that you can use a FOSS
client (such as Evolution or an Akonadi client) with an unmodified Exchange
server.
OpenChange depends on some underlying Samba4 libraries, so we normally work
with the Samba project to get releases that basically match up - we don't want
to rely on building bits of Samba4 from the git repository, and we don't want
to depend on really on versions of Samba4. Not too far ahead, and not too far
behind. Just right...
The next release of Openchange (0.9 "COCHRANE") will rely on Samba 4 alpha9.
So the main thing to do is to make sure that we can work with the current
state of Samba 4, to provide patches to Samba for stuff that needs to be fixed
on the Samba side, and to have changes for OpenChange ready to go.
We expect to release within two weeks of Samba 4 alpha9, but OpenChange 0.9
will be released when it is considered done.
We anticipate a 0.10 release in early 2010, and probably a subsequent 0.11
release prior to 1.0.
I've gone through the trac tickets, and moved anything that can't reasonably
be achieved for 0.9 to a 0.10 milestone. Large changes have to wait for 0.10 -
it is getting very late to risk destablising libmapi.
So what we still have left:
- integrate exchange2ical work from Ryan Lepinski into trunk
- ensure that OpenChange works with FreeBSD/OpenBSD
- ensure that OpenChange works with OpenSolaris
- libmapi/Samba4 API updates
- mapiproxy/Samba4 API updates and association group API evolution
- a couple of tickets that may not be too hard to fix, related to pkg-config
support
- a ticket related to Free / Busy time support that has a crash.
- a patch that checks some return values that we current don't handle.
- some documentation stuff.
Details are on http://trac.openchange.org.
Known problems:
- openchange development server will not be working "as it is". Resolving this
requires revision of the OpenChange schema updates (to match Samba4 changes).
This may not be resolved for 0.9.
If I've dropped a patch, or there is something you really need for 0.9, now is
your chance to make yourself known. Probability of a patch being applied is
inversely proportional to complexity, and also inversely proportional to how
close I think the release is. That is, simple and soon is good.
Brad
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