Re: [Evolution-hackers] [evolution-kolab] towards Upstream-Integration

[Chenthill <pchenthill gmail com>]

On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 23:33 +0200, Christian Hilberg wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> Since the last announcement of the evolution-kolab team here on the list, our 
> source code (hosted at http://evolution-kolab.sourceforge.net/) has seen some 
> more polishing and now compiles on Debian/Squeeze in addition to Ubuntu/Lucid. 
> We will make available a (source) release 0.0.13 soon, which contains the 
> fixes for Squeeze.
>   Next week will see some performance improvements over the current state, and 
> by the end of next week, I am planning to have the post-0.0.13 release ready.
> 
> The code base has received quite some testing (under Ubuntu/Lucid) already, 
> mainly in the area of Kolab inter-client compatibility. Online and offline 
> operational modes are working, including conflict resolution. More testing is 
> always welcome, of course.
> 
> The evolution-kolab team now feels that we have reached a state where we can 
> begin working towards upstream integration. During the planning and coding 
> phases so far, we aligned all of our project decisions with the Evolution team 
> as closely as our time schedule and resources permitted. This was done in 
> order to promote for an easy upstream integration process. We would like to 
> thank everyone here who helped us in the various aspects of creating a new 
> Evolution plugin.
> 
> We would very much like to be hosted at gnome.org with our project. 
> SourceForge is a nice breeding platform, but we feel it is a little too far 
> away from GNOME, and since we are a true GNOME project, we think it would be 
> nice to add evolution-kolab directly to the Evolution project at its GNOME 
> site.
> 
> The first step could be to create an evolution-kolab git repository at 
> gnome.org, at least this is what came to my mind instantly. In order to get 
> the prerequisites right, I have applied for a GNOME account with git access. 
> This has been vouched for by the Evolution team (thanks, Matt), and I have 
> received confirmation from the GNOME account management team today.
> 
> Since neither my kernel concepts evolution-kolab team mates nor myself have 
> done upstream integration for an Evolution plugin yet, I would like to know 
> how we should best proceed from here. If there is any reading we should have 
> done prior to further acting, we'll gladly accept pointers to the relevant 
> documents. David (or anyone else involved there), I heard that you did the 
> same with your EWS team recently, so if there are any lessons-learned which we 
> should heed to, we will also be happy to know. Long story short, we will just 
> be happy for any directing through this process so we can get through it 
> smoothly.
You could create a package naming eg: evolution-kolab and create a new
repository in git.gnome.org. http://live.gnome.org/Git/NewRepository
has all the details required.

Thanks, Chenthill.
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Kind regards,
> 
> 	Christian
> 
> 
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