OpenSync version for 8.04 (Re: Hardy: Time for sync project focus and here is how)

[Michael Banck]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 02:23:42PM -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
> > Some feedback is on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/81831
> >
> >  We got one report of a regression to 0.19 so far, and one (easy)
> >  success.
> >
> >  Tough call really - maybe one option would be to push 0.22 into hardy
> >  now and if more regressions show up pull the whole multisync/opensync
> >  out of it - otherwise it looks like a nightmare to ship in a LTS.
> >
> >  opensync itself is in main, so would need some sponsor etc. I guess.
> 
> syncing isn't ready, I recommend taking 0.19 out of the repositories
> and waiting until Hardy+1 or until there is actually some developer
> time to do something useful with opensync. Put versions 0.2x and 0.3x
> in multiverse or just leave them to outside repositories.

multiverse isn't for this kind of packages.
 
> You can't keep 0.19 at all, it has no functionality and it's worth
> keeping. 

Yeah.

> 0.2x and 0.3x have different plugins available to them and if you ever
> ship with them then you need to start thinking about how to ship with
> hardware support for syncing, i.e libbarry-0.19

Did you mean to write "e.g. libbarry-0.19"?  Blackberry support would be
nice, but I don't see how this is a requirement for any syncing
solution.

There is a Debian ITP for barry, so hopefully this will be done by
hardy+1.  Did somebody port barry to opensync-0.3x yet?

> Besides there isn't really any GUI ready, and no one is talking about
> it or wanting it from the developers community. 

Several people are working on several GUIs, but progress is slow or
non-existant, yes.

> I say we talk again about syncing at UDS. Invite conduit too.
 
Is anybody involved with this going to UDS? 


Michael