Re: [Evolution] MAPI exchange bits

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

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 :)
> 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. Only after that I can commit the code to the
Evolution trunk. 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.

-Srini.