Hi everyone, There is a lot of exciting stuff happening with Getting Things GNOME!, due to Google sponsoring three students to work on the code this summer — Luca I., Karlo and myself.
My work has to do with client-server separation and providing a really first-class DBus interface to the tasks you store in GTG. However, in response to some comments on the gtg-contributors list (see the thread from https://lists.launchpad.net/gtg-contributors/msg00184.html) I am also spending some time reworking the plugin application programming interface (API). If you use, maintain, or have thought of writing a plugin for GTG, please either read on, or skip to the to-do list at the bottom of this message. LONG VERSION Luca's Summer of Code project is implementing MULTIPLE BACKENDS in GTG. What's a backend? It's one way of storing task and tag data. Simple examples might be a local file, or a CouchDB or SQLite database. Other examples would be web services (for Remember The Milk, Google Tasks, etc.) Each of these is handled by a different backend; GTG keeps them all in sync. As soon as I mention RTM, you might think, "But there is already a RTM plugin, no?" Indeed there is. The *current* plugins that handle task storage or syncing will wind up being converted into backends living on the server-side of GTG. Of course it will be possible to add new backends of your own. The GTG server (and its backends) will be available to not only the desktop (GTK) user inteface (UI), but also Karlo's web-based UI, the command-line tool gtcli, and any others. What does that leave for plugins? Plugins will be specific to the GTK UI, and add features that streamline, customize, or better integrate it into your personal workflow. They will let you, so to speak, "pimp your GTG". With these concepts of plugins vs. backends in mind, I have started hacking away at the code. But of course the outcome will be much better if I get input from the people who use the plugin API. SHORT VERSION Therefore, please... 1. Have a look at https://code.launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors/gtg/plugin-api-refactor 2. Send me e-mail if you have any wishlist features for the plugin API 3. Send me e-mail if you have a plugin idea (the API should support it) 4. Keep using GTG! Cheers, -- Paul Kishimoto SM candidate (2012), Technology & Policy Program Massachusetts Institute of Technology http://paul.kishimoto.name — +19053029315
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