End of a book : Johnny in Novell

Last day in Novell.

Started out as an intern in the GNOME team about 5 years back. Jumped between Evolution and iFolder a few times for different (voluntary/involuntary) reasons. Met a lot of good engineers. Had both good / bad times. Learned a lot work / non-work.

Gnomers,

I loved working on Evolution, Evolution MAPI (may not be perfect, but had a awesome time with it And i’m yet to cash in on the few beers i’ve been offered), Attachment Reminder (Trivial, but looks like you guys liked/hated/loved it), Redesign of Evolution search bar and so on. Best bug that I’ve worked on so far was changing a ’1′ to ‘-1′ in EText (Oh those early days! Had no clue what GDB can do.. Used hundreds of ‘printf’s, lots of coffee and tested the patience of office night guards and that adrenalin rush!). Thanks to Novell for the opportunity to contribute full-time and getting paid for that.

Special thanks to my mentor Srini. I’m looking forward for more new awesome fun things in GNOME.

Thanks.

I’ll miss the 1-1 coffee breaks talking games/gadgets/music, discussions on research papers that I don’t have a clue about, conversations during ‘tea breaks’ outside office (you would see me very inspired/productive after those sessions), thursday nights & nice friends that I found beyond ‘work’.

The End.

Push Email for GNOME Evolution’s Exchange MAPI provider (exchange 2007)

 

After few days of crazy bug hunting (and creating the same) , we have a nice push event notification framework for Evolution-MAPI. When Evolution is running all the changes happening in user’s mailbox in server would immediately be synced. This avoids those long fetches from server.  A short screen cast (watch in HD) :

Currently I’ve got “new mail” event handled and is limited to mailer. Would be working on other events. This feature has some major issues to be solved before it can land in master.

It is FUN !

 

Evolution MAPI update release. (0.26.0.1)

Hello,  I just released a update to evolution-mapi. 0.26.0.1 has fix for Bug 574784 without which the package is totally unusable.

Thanks !

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Comments like http://blogs.gnome.org/sragavan/2009/03/18/announcing-anjal-the-new-mail-for-netbooks/#comments makes me do more at times like this

Proud to be part of Anjal (Pronounce as “An-jal” similar to “Brin-jal”).

Awesome !!!

Evolution MAPI : Debut tarball release & RPM Repos are online

We have started the tarball releases for evolution-mapi. It’ll be in sync with GNOME release schedule. evolution-mapi-0.25.3 is available for download [0].

Thanks to Suman [1], openSUSE repositories [2] are back online.

Matthew has repositories for Fedora [3] [4]

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[0] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/evolution-mapi/0.25/

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2008-December/msg00097.html

[2] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME://Evolution://mapi/

[3] http://mbarnes.fedorapeople.org/mapi/

[4] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2008-December/msg00086.html

Evolution MAPI : Contributions… Testing… Bugzilla …

Development is more active after our move to new svn ! Julien (of openchange.org) has patched evolution-mapi to be compatible with libmapi 0.8 .Patches are welcome !

Some of the cool things with libmapi 0.8 is the possibility of having multiple exchange accounts (multiple sessions) in Evolution (Yep. you read that right! ). But they will hit the trunk little later .

Now more focus is on real world testing on servers other than few test servers we are running. What doesn’t work in different setups is something we would like to know and fix them all ! Thanks to those who have been reporting issues and TIA

NEWS :

+ evolution-mapi is proposed for GNOME 2.26. Yay !

+ we have a new product ‘evolution-mapi’ in GNOME bugzilla.

+ Wiki page is updated with information on building evolution-mapi .

Evolution MAPI : New SVN Repository

New SVN repo for evolution-mapi provider is created :

** svn://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution-mapi **

This repo has :
1. MAPI Account setup e-plugin.
2. libexchangemapi – Backend code for talking to server using openchange’s libmapi.
3. Evolution Data Server backends for addressbook and calendar.
4. Camel provider (mails).

More information on building evolution-mapi is available here .

We will be creating a new bugzilla component in bugzilla.gnome.org for evolution-mapi.

[ Update Nov 22 : Please report bugs under 'evolution-mapi' product in GNOME Bugzilla. ]

The EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH[1][2] is closed.

Builds (RPMs) will resume shortly.

[1] svn://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution-data-server/branches/EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH

[2] svn://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution/branches/EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH

Evolution Exchange 2007 (MAPI) Provider : Changes in schedule and more.

Code :

We have moved away from libmapi 0.7 to libmapi trunk (0.8 development) , so we can take advantage of the new APIs.

We will be constantly updating our code base to libmapi trunk.

http://www.go-evolution.org/MAPIProvider#Feature_Status

Currently :

Suman is busy in integrating meetings into evolution. (few more tasks left)

I’m currently working on finishing (completing) off the basic features in mailer and will move to optimizing the sync & more.

Schedules :

Sadly, we won’t be able to make it to Evolution 2.24 as we are late (details here). Meanwhile we will continue to provide pluggable packages and this will be available as a pluggable provider. 2.26 will have this.

Licensing :

Yay ! Very exciting day. Evolution licence change was announced by Michael Meeks in my talk this morning (Exchange, MAPI and Evolution) . Announce mail here!! .

Update 1 : GUADEC Talk available here

Johnny goes to GUADEC 2008, Istanbul, Turkey.

A small talk on Friday morning regarding the new Evolution MAPI provider for Exchange 2007 connectivity.

We (srini & chen) will be reaching Istanbul on sunday evening.

see ya there !

Got my openSUSE 11 boxed edition !

. yay!

Cool !!

EPlugin Python loader in trunk

Committed *initial* python eplugin loader for Evolution. Please feel free to fix it .

Bindings yet to be done (without which it is not useful) . I’m looking (doing some initial work) at pygtk-codegen for generating the required bindings.

Would be happy get a extra hand here

will code for food (a Python EPlugin Loader)

A Python EPlugin Loader (for GNOME/Evolution).