Re: Proposing couchdb-glib and evolution-couchdb for GNOME 2.30

[John Carr <john carr unrouted co uk>]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Purpose
> =======
> couchdb-glib is a library to implement the protocol to talk to CouchDB
> servers (http://couchdb.apache.org), a schema-free, json-based, database
> of documents, which offers synchronization and replication between
> several machines.
>
> evolution-couchdb is the 1st module to make use of couchdb-glib, to
> allow contacts from Evolution to be stored in CouchDB databases and
> replicated/synchronized for free to other CouchDB servers.
>
> Target
> ======
> couchdb-glib for the developer platform
> evolution-couchdb for the desktop
>
> Dependencies
> ============
> couchdb-glib depends on json-glib, libsoup, libuuid and (optionally)
> libssl (for OAuth authentication)
> evolution-couchdb depends on couchdb-glib, evolution-data-server and
> evolution

I've not looked at evo-couchdb, is the intention that there would be a
local couchdb instance or that it would connect directly to a remote
couchdb?

If there is a local couchdb exepected for the common case then maybe
the mozilla js dependency needs a mention.

> Resource usage
> ==============
> Source code is already in GNOME's git (couchdb-glib and
> evolution-couchdb modules)
> Tarballs are already published on GNOME's FTP
> Bugs are right now in Launchpad, but moving them to GNOME's bugzilla as
> soon as needed
>
> Adoption
> ========
> Both modules are included in Ubuntu One service integration in Ubuntu
> Karmic upcoming release, to provide contacts synchronization between the
> desktop CouchDB database and the cloud-based services of Ubuntu One.
>
> For GNOME 2.29, plans are to add support for calendars and tasks
> (evolution), and, hopefully, also notes (Tomboy), metadata (tracker),
> configuration settings (dconf, when adopted, if so)
>
>
> GNOME-ness
> ==========
> Right now, everything is setup like any GNOME project, that is, it uses
> gettext for translations, and should be accessible (almost no UI
> involved right now, just a very simple settings widget for evolution to
> setup CouchDB addressbooks).
>
> It is not translated into any language though, but translators should be
> able to start translating it straight away, since all its ready. Also,
> couchdb-glib API documentation is missing, but that's one priority task
> for the GNOME 2.29 cycle, whether the modules are accepted or not.
>
> Bugs are in Launchpad, but could be moved to bugzilla.gnome.org pretty
> easily for the bugsquad.
>
> 3.0 readiness
> =============
> No deprecated libraries or symbols being used. Also, the addition of an
> online services infrastructure could give 3.0 another major feature to
> offer to users, apart from what is already planned.

Have you considered using the NEPOMUK ontologies (they've spent quite
a lot of time developing ways of describing contacts and calendars and
such things and from your ML it looks like you are reinventing the
wheel).

John