Kolab client integration

Cornelius Schumacher schumacher at kde.org
Mon Jul 12 10:19:45 CEST 2004


On Monday 12 July 2004 08:45, Bo Thorsen wrote:
>
> Cornelius, that's just not true! The only thing that's branched is the new
> format stuff. Everything else is just HEAD. All our testing and
> functionality is done in HEAD, and we don't have any secret patches
> anywhere.

Well, your last commit to KOrganizer was something like two months ago. Since 
then I had to do some pretty serious changes because of problems in the 
groupware parts, e.g. the Free/Busy stuff didn't really work. You tell me 
that my changes didn't break any Kolab-related functionality and that now 
everything works perfect? Ok, that's good.

> We are doing this all the time. We have two guys in the project that's do
> testing and documentation.

Where is this documentation? The KOrganizer manual doesn't contain a single 
line from you. The Kolab functionality isn't documented at all and given that 
the text freeze for KDE 3.3 is tomorrow, I doubt that this will change.

Who are these two guys, by the way?

> And we do work with both the KDE bugzilla as 
> well as the kolab bug tracker.

Sorry, then I must have missed the bug reports. Could you please point me to 
the KDE Bugzilla numbers?

> > Nobody will be able to correctly set up the Kolab client functionality
> > without a wizard. This beast is much too complex. If you don't care
> > about usability you might say that it isn't essential, but that isn't
> > the way KDE usually works and it certainly is something you have to
> > integrate before you honestly can say that the Kolab client is _fully_
> > integrated.
>
> You really insist on insulting our work :-(

Sorry, if you got that impression. That's not my intention. I appreciate the 
work you have done, but I think there are still some open issues before you 
can really claim that the Kolab client functionality is _fully_ integrated. I 
tried to point these issues out several times, but not all of them were 
addressed (see wizard, conflict resolution which were there in the kroupware 
branch but are not in the HEAD branch).

> I of course agree that a wizard would be good, and I hope Daniel can make
> it. But I disagree completely that it's necessary. Documenting how to set
> this up is still a possibility.

It currently isn't documented, so you better hurry. The text freeze for KDE 
3.3 is tomorrow.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>




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