Hi Christian, You write-up sounds really exciting :-)
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 10:28 +0200, Christian Hilberg wrote: > We will try to map as much of Kolab's functionality as possible onto > Evolution whithout changing Evolution itself (other than providing a plugin, > that is). Especially, we will not touch core Evolution or E-D-S. It would be good to know what we are missing though - if there are new and interesting things that can be added to the front-end. > * targeting Linux for client and server *solely*. No specific attempts will > be made to be portable to other platforms (like *BSD, Windows, ...). That is quite normal; Fridrich loves to port stuff to Windows ;-) and as you say using the right platform libs should make that easier. > * targeting Evo/EDS 2.30 only (2.30.2 presently, we should be able to follow > patchlevels). It is a customer requirement that the plugin be used with > current stable versions of GNOME and we will not be able to stand API churns > or move to GTK+-3 on our development platforms for several reasons, mostly > due to development deadlines. Unfortunate, but understandable :-) > * providing DEB packages for Debian/GNU Linux only. RPM packages should not > be too hard to generate from our debs (or by other means), but we will not > be able to provide them. Ah - each distro will package it their own way. > Our project will be GPLv2 (or a comparable FLOSS license which will assure at > least GPLv2's freedom level ;-). There should not be any licensing issues > here. If there are doubts, please feel free to ask for clarification. Soo - personally, I would love to see the code live inside e-d-s and/or Evolution itself: that should make it easier to maintain longer term, adapt for re-factoring, get translators involved etc. Licensing wise, the e-d-s code is currently LGPLv2, and Evolution is LGPLv2 or v3 (at your choice). I would recommend sticking with that, or going LGPLv2+, rather than having a plain GPLv2. > Our customer, for whom we will develop this solution, is also very > specific about the project being hosted publicly and accessible by everyone. Wonderful :-) > If Evolution staff will be willing to host our project sources within > Evo git repo, we'll happily transfer our stuff there as soon as we > have a first preview ready. Perhaps something to dicuss on #evolution (irc.gimp.net) - but it'd be great to have you working in the same git repo IMHO [ not that it's my decision of course - I defer to Matthew/Chen etc. ;-] ATB, Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers mailing list evolution-hackers@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers