Re: A proposal...

[Peter Robinson <peterr opensystems net au>]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Philip Streck wrote:

> Well it looks like I may have unleashed a beast...  I think everyone 
> has great ideas on the future of gnome-pilot and I think we need 
> to pursue these.  JP hasn't responded to my original reply so I'm 
> not sure where he stands on this issue.  But what I propose we do 
> is to maintain the current gnome-pilot code base for stability, and 
> gnome2 conformance.  JP, i think you showed interest in doing this 
> in your last post.  I would then like to see a new project that would 
> focus on a device-independent conduit framework, and expanding the 
> current features of gnome-pilot to be more robust, prettier, etc.
> Another portion of this new project would be developing a set of 
> core conduits for evolution, gnome-pim?, balsa etc.  Eventually when 
> the latter project stablizes we can eliminate gnome-pilot all together.
> I step up to the plate as being a project maintainer/lead for this 
> new project but I do not want to pursue this if A) the community 
> doesn't want it, and B) That I will be a lone programmer in this.
> So that's my take on the current situation, and a future resolution.
> How does everyone else feel?

I agree to this in most part but the other people we may want to inform of 
this (and they may well be listening) is the evolution team. There are 
already a number of conduits that come with evolution (cal/todo/contacts) 
and they may well have further plans, and there is no point doubling up. I 
believe there is already some coonduits for things like gnome pim in the 
conduits package that's available, ass well as conduits to do mail and 
other stuff. I would think stuff like what to backup would be done in the 
pilot capplet in gnome. Does anyone know what features are available in 
the kde equivilant of gnome-pilot. I wouldn't know as I don't use kde.

just my 2 cents
Peter