Re: [O] Some thoughts on MobileOrg and its development ....

2014-08-13 Thread Ashton Kemerling
It's probably hard to assertain interest because

1) iOS projects have a high barrier to entry contribution wise.
2) A lot of people feel mobileorg doesn't fit their current needs, and
are using something else.

I definitely fall into both categories. I wouldn't be surprised if a few
people come back once things get going again.

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Ashton Kemerling



Re: [O] Some thoughts on MobileOrg and its development ....

2014-08-12 Thread Ashton Kemerling
That seems reasonable to me.

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Ashton Kemerling



Re: [O] Some thoughts on MobileOrg and its development ....

2014-08-12 Thread Ashton Kemerling
David Wagle  writes:

> What's involved in 'rebooting' the project? Are the various owners of
> the iPhone and Android packages on this list? 
>
> I'm not a coder at all, but I've administratively managed software
> projects before. I'm more than happy to do what I know how to do --
> which is mostly send out emails asking people if they can help do stuff? 
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Ashton Kemerling
>  wrote:
>
> I did some digging into that a few months ago. While I'm not an
> experienced iOS dev, I flailed about for a few weeks trying to add
> deadline parsing and failed miserably.
> 
> I'm fairly convinced that most of the code is either super platform
> specific or in need of replacing with easier to maintain & test
> components.
> 
> 
> --
> Ashton Kemerling
> 
>
>

Honestly, I don't know exactly what would be involved, I'm not
experienced in mobile and I don't have anywhere near the spare bandwidth
to be anything other than a secondary contributor. I do suspect that a
lot of existing code would be thrown away in a combined approach due to
the massive semantic and structural differences between native code and
HTML/JS/CSS.

I can say for certain that we would have to figure out the handoff of
various credentials from the old maintainers (who I am assuming would
not like to continue being maintainers) for the respective app-stores
and Dropbox tokens. 

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Ashton Kemerling



Re: [O] Some thoughts on MobileOrg and its development ....

2014-08-12 Thread Ashton Kemerling
I did some digging into that a few months ago. While I'm not an
experienced iOS dev, I flailed about for a few weeks trying to add
deadline parsing and failed miserably. 

I'm fairly convinced that most of the code is either super platform
specific or in need of replacing with easier to maintain & test
components. 


-- 
Ashton Kemerling