On 15 April 2016 at 17:12, Bill Filler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey guys, this is great and thanks for the effort to get Owncloud sync > working! We've been thinking about how to do proper integration into Ubuntu > Touch to have it work out of the box using our current architecture and > components in the system. > > Specifically for contact sync and calendar sync, here is how we envision > the components fitting into our current architecture: > > > 1. Owncloud online account - we'd need an online account plugin for > Owncloud for services to authenticate. This is a pre-requiste for both > calendar, contacts and any other service that eventually wanted to sync. > Sounds like mardy has an initial implementation here [1] > 2. Contacts: contact syncing currently uses the buteo framework and > our only plugin used so far is the google contact plugin (via Google API). > A new buteo plugin that supports carddav would need to be written. One > exists, used by Jolla [2], could be used on Ubuntu with minimal changes > potentially. > 3. Calendar: calendar syncing is currently done using sync-monitor and > syncevolution, with the plan to eventually replace with the buteo framework > (longer term, non-trivial project). Once this is in place, the buteo caldav > plugin [3] could be used. For the shorter term, work could be done on > sync-monitor to configure syncevolution wtih Owncloud caldav online account > inforrmation such that the existing support for caldav in syncevolution > could be used. > > Steps 1 and 2 are pretty self contained and would be great candidates for > anyone in the community to hack on and that would help us get into the > product quicker. We'd be happy to provide guidance and help here. > > Regarding generic Owncloud sync for other types of files (photos, music, > etc), we are working on a storage framework that will provide a plugin > mechanism to talk to cloud based services. In this framework, an Owncloud > plugin will need to be written and there will be a QML api for apps to use > to participate in the sync. This is some ways out, but is where we are > heading in Ubuntu engineering. You'll be hearing more about it as work > progresses in the next months. > > Bill > > [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~danielholm/owncloud-app/trunk/files > [2] https://git.merproject.org/mer-core/buteo-sync-plugin-carddav > [3] https://git.merproject.org/mer-core/buteo-sync-plugin-caldav > > > Hi Bill, I've have been working on an owncloud app [1] for a number of weeks now, I have thoroughly enjoyed it and I hope to share some test builds on the openstore [2] soon. As I work though fixing bugs I intend to rewrite parts of the sync daemon to be more flexible and expose more control to apps. Is it possible for me to do this in a way that will benefit the project as a whole and potentially form the foundation of an official framework? Thanks, Dan [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~ocs-team/owncloud-sync/trunk [2] https://open.uappexplorer.com/
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