Re: [Evolution] MAPI exchange bits

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 08:37 -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:22 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 12:29 -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:
> > > Hey there Srini, list,
> > >
> > > I spoke with you the other day on IRC about the upcoming MAPI release.
> > > I'm jhbuild'ing evolution now and will check out and build from
> > > EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH after everything builds correctly from trunk.
> >
> > > What is the policy regarding committing patches to this branch?
> > We commit every few lines on our disk to the branch :)
>
> Does "we" include me? :)

It is all open-sourced. You are free to help us with patches :)
> > > My mail admins moved my mailbox from an exchange 2003 server to 2007
> > > without telling me first.  This caused a few days of downtime and quite
> > > a bit of frustration.  I'd like to start using the "official" interface
> > > to the exchange server in order to minimize this type of problem in the
> > > future.
> > >
> > > How closely is the Evolution team working with the Exchange team? 
> > Part of the evolution team at Novell is doing this work. I don't
> > think/know of any agreement for MAPI/Evolution related in that. We are
> > using OpenChange based libmapi to connect to the Exchange Server and it
> > works pretty well.
> >
> > I was looking for a pre-release this week but due to some issues and
> > holidays in India I think this might be pushed a week or two later. In
> > the whole I'm looking at a feature complete around GNOME 2.22 release.
> > Unfortunately I'm not sure, if I can commit to the GNOME release or not,
> > since this code has some licensing issues which I'm still working at
> > Novell to clear them off.
>
> If I can help with that, let me know.  I'm biking distance from the
> Exchange team.
Sure. 
> > Only after that I can commit the code to the
> > Evolution trunk.
>
> Is this keeping you from committing to the EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH branch?
> It sounds like it's not.  How often are changes from trunk integrated
> back to the MAPI branch?
I really don't want to push any code that has licensing issues into the
main tarball and developing in a branch and merging later would be fine,
since it helps to keep the stability of the trunk. Changes from the
trunk aren't integrated to the branch. Later some point, I would merge
the branch to trunk. It should be pretty simple IMO

Evolution/
        configure.in
        plugins/exchange-mapi

EDS/
        configure.in
        addressbook/backend/mapi
        calendar/backend/mapi
        camel/providers/mapi
        servers/mapi

These are the directories and just the configure.in and Makefile.am
would be the real merge work. I could have made this a conditional
compilation in trunk, but still I want to do the initial things in a
branch and merge.

> > Till then I'm hoping is to have weekly/biweekly
> > opensuse buildservice packages for SUSE/Fedora/Debian (What ever OBS
> > supports) for testing and help us back. If any one wants to help us in
> > getting the OBS ready, your help is welcome.
>
> Hmmm... What's OBS, and does it build RHEL3 packages, perchance?
OBS - OpenSUSE Build Service. (RHEL3? I really donno. It sure builds for
fedora/OpenSUSE/debian). So it may...

-Srini.