On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 01:36 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote: > Hi folks, > > One of the goals for Evolution 2.26 is to finally remove the use of > Bonobo and BonoboUI from Evolution [1] in favor of equivalent > functionality now provided by the GTK+ stack. This is happening in > parallel with Ross Burton's effort to port Evolution-Data-Server from > using Bonobo to D-Bus as the communication medium. The two efforts are, > at this point, still progressing independently. > > I've been working on removing Bonobo from Evolution since late August > and have been publishing my source code changes to a Subversion branch > named "kill-bonobo" [2]. I've also been maintaining a wiki page by the > same name [3] with screen shots and somewhat regular updates, though the > updates tend not to go into much technical detail. > > With the U.S. on daylight savings time now, our weekly IRC meetings are > at 05:00 EST and, not being much of a morning person, I've been waking > up in time even less frequently than I did when they were at 06:00 EST. > So I feel like I've been a little incommunicado lately about how things > are progressing. > > I hope to correct that with this, the first of a series of postings > about where things stand and also some technical details about the > direction I've taken with the newly-rewritten EShell. > > The wiki page [3] already has a brief overview of the new shell design, > along with a link to some incomplete and slightly out-of-date API docs > for it [4]. I'll try to improve the completeness and quality of the > documentation over the next week. > > > So, for the remainder of this first post I'll cover schedule. > > Is this going to make it in time for 2.26? > > Short answer is: I still don't know. > > Red Hat was gracious enough to allocate two months for me to work on > this full time. In that time I managed to complete the new EShell, more > or less finish the Contacts, Tasks and Memos modules, and get a good > start on the Calendars and Mail modules. But with November already here > I'm obligated to focus on other issues of interest to Red Hat during > business hours, which leaves evenings and weekends (when I can find > time) to work on this. Suffice it to say, progress has slowed. > > Unfortunately, no matter how much I test the "kill-bonobo" branch > beforehand, the truth is when we finally do merge it to trunk there > _will_ be regressions. Lots of 'em. Hopefully no major show-stoppers > but lots of little things I missed. The scope of the changes here is > simply too massive for me to catch everything. Heck, I'm still fixing > little bugs I missed in the composer rewrite from earlier this year and > that was of much smaller scope than this. We'll need a few months of > heavy testing and bug reporting from developers and interested members > of the community after the merge and before the stable release date. > > So, I've drawn a line in the sand: 2.25.3. If the merge doesn't happen > in time for that release, which is scheduled for mid-December, I'm > inclined to re-target the feature to 2.27.1. > > As I said, at this point I don't know if I'm going to make it in time. > There's still a lot of work left. Finish the Mailer and Calendar for > starters, and then go through and rework most of the plugins (EMenu and > EPopup are going bye-bye). Plus I have a TODO list a mile long of loose > ends I have to go back and address. Evolution-Exchange will likely need > some rework, though to what degree I'm not yet sure. And I also don't > know what impact all this will have on the MAPI work. > > It's getting there. Just not as fast as I would've liked. In the next > posting I'll talk about the new shell design and touch on some of the > things it now handles for you that the current shell does not. > > If you have questions, suggestions or concerns, please don't hesitate to > shoot me or the list an email. After all, I'm writing this in hopes of > getting some feedback. >
Thanks for the great update on this Matt. Its going to be a tough time for many of us for the next couple of months. That's one reason, I asked you to look at Camel/Gobject stuff for 2.27.x. May be, we have too many things to do, which would take more than a 6-month cycle? May be a bigger GNOME 3.0 schedule might fit us well to revamp most of Evolution [Split it, Kill bonobo, Write Accounts well etc]. Anyways, just some thoughts. -Srini. _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
