[OGo-Evolution] Improving the Ogo connector

Robert de Geus evolution@opengroupware.org
Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:07:14 +0200


Hi,
Is Alvaro still around? I think he is the one who can explain the
current code. My guess is Helge can help with the zidestore part.

It would be very helpfull if we can give Shreyas the information he
needs,
gr.
Robert

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 22:58 +0530, Shreyas Srinivasan wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I am looking at porting and improving the ogo connector to work with evolution
> 2.[6,8]. I  have been working on it for about a week now and have made
> a little progress. Calendar elements creation, edition and deletion works
> smoothly (it used to work i am told, i just fixed a couple of bugs). Now
> i am looking at fixing addressbook and tasks.
> 
> My research showed that there was no way to create new addressbook
> elements as it was not supported by groupdav interface, has there been
> a change in status. Also i have a couple of doubts about the existing
> e-book-backend-ogo code, so if the original developers could help me
> out in explaining a little of the code(only a couple of questions), i would
> be grateful.
> 
> I have some experience in working with evolution as i used to maintain
> the evolution mailer and the mac osx port when i was at Novell.
> 
> I am attaching a diff of the work i have done so far (diff'ed against
> evolution head), its not much but i hope to do a lot more. Hopefully if i can
> understand the current connector code base well, i can work on
> extending it to current opengroupware feature compatibility and also
> work on some stability work. Looking forward to hearing from all of
> you.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shreyas