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 !!!

1 reason to run GDB & 2 reasons to run emacs from source

CODE :

GDB : Compiling from Project Archer, you get to have python scripting inside gdb. This opens up numerous possibilities and nice tricks that helps you to debug  faster. http://tromey.com/blog/?cat=17 has few example + demo scripts.  Falling in love  with these ..

EMACS : emacs 23 (in cvs) gives you MultiTTY Support , XFT Font rendering (and more). Looks better with XFT and multitty support rocks !

LIFE :

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0o3731 0×7D9 (2009)

Back from 2 week long break. Met family. Some observations :

+ You got no idea why your relatives like / hate you !

+ When you have a 8 month old nephew around , Don’t pack your laptop for the trip.

+ In some places you don’t have GSM network, but have access to internet @ 240 KB.

+ Cruising at 130+ K in Indian roads! yep .. they are no more dreams.

+ RB doesn’t help when you are sleep deprived and driving ! (hey .. not me)

+ Solitude helps after 2 weeks of too much human contact.

2009 :

+ This is going to be a awesome year! (or in Swen’s words : New year : Same shit )

+ Need change. Can’t take crap everyday from crapy ppl. You know what i mean.

Looks like my urges to write blog posts are back. naaah …

Code :

+ Been fixing up e-seek. Thanks to GIT for all itz offline awesomeness.

+ Will finish up Hiveminder for Tasque (live.gnome.org/Tasque) soonish. Already started scratching files for Toodledo backend.

Looks like my urges to write code is still there and strong

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

foss.in 2008

Some of the sessions that i’m planning to attend :

• Speed up boot through disk sorting – Nikanth Karthikesan or Giving git-rebase a facelift (UI) Abhijit Bhopatkar
• Profile Gnome using Dtrace Parthasarathi Susarla

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

Still around …

Looks like people were wondering what happened to me. since i’vent written anything here.

Well still here. Was busy with work. later ..

The Dark Knight in IMAX Hyderabad

Simply Awesome ! 2.5 hrs, non-stop .. felt like 25 minutes. Woa !

Thanks to Swen for the perfect middle row/seats and to Punns for infecting me with TDK fever.

Happy birthday Srini

Happy Birthday Srini!

GUADEC : If you see him . Don’t forget to wish him !

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