Fwd: Kolab2 and novell evolution

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Tuesday 30 November 2004 16:33, Sebastien Estienne wrote:
> Could you give me an idea of the difficulty to do it for 2 goods
> developpers that have knowledge about xml/imap/c/linux (time?)

That is a though question.
Maybe Bo, David or Joon can say more.
(And it really is a topic for kolab-devel@ more than kolab-users@)

The estimation depends a lot of the current code,
especially what is there to use and how good it is.
Here is a quick brain dump, which garantees nothing,
but is betten then no answer:

There are two main parts of the problem:
    a) disconnected imap with annotations
    b) the Kolab2 XML storage format 
    c) interoperability details, like triggering pfbs

a) can be done in various degrees, from trying online imap
for testing purposes only (it will be considered an offensive client
in production environments, because bogging down the server)
to well designed syncronisation queues.
Depending on how much Evolution already does, I would 
roughly estimate say up to 6 personmonth. (So with two people
you might be able to do it in 4 month.)

b) Dedends on how Evolution saves events internally.
When knowing everything, 3 person month.
Usually you discover bugs in Evolution this ways, that you need
to fix. 

c) Hard to tell, there are many small but important details. 
(This probably is the biggest item.)

> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:18:37 +0100, Bernhard Reiter
>
> <bernhard at intevation.de> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 November 2004 14:42, kael wrote:
> > > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:37:35 +0100, Bernhard Reiter
> > >
> > > <bernhard at intevation.de> wrote:
> > > > I am not aware of such a project,
> > > > it would be very nice to have a disconnected imap access in Evolution
> > > > and then a Kolab2 Storage format implementation so it can understand
> > > > the contents.
> > >
> > > Nobody would be interested into starting a _Kolab extension for
> > > Mozilla/Thunderbird_ ?
> >
> > Both would be very nice to have!
> > Being the coordinator of Proko2 I can tell you that my time
> > is taken up to make Kolab2 with the KDE and windows clients
> > a success first.
> > Help is always welcome!
> >
> >
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> --
> Sebastien Estienne
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