Re: Roadmap

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:32 +0200, Armin Bauer wrote:
> >Hum... "wid" == "when it's done"? Anyway, here I could probably try and
> >help (GUIs are not my strong suit anyway); is there any documentation
> >for how to write or port a plugin? Is there a "dummy" plugin that one
> >can base a design on?
> >
> sure!
> there is an example plugin here:
> http://www.opensync.org/browser/trunk/docs/example-plugin
> 
> and you can also take a look at the doxygen documentation
> http://www.opensync.org/docs/
> 
> or some of the other plugins:
> http://www.opensync.org/browser/plugins/

Ok, will look into that. My plan is to start thinking/working on the
Evolution2 and/or the IrMC plugins; if anybody else is working on those,
please let me know so I don't duplicate work.

> >Ok, (my) emphasis on all plugins; what do you exactly mean with "fully
> >working gui"? 
> >
> i meant this:
> "Another thing that should be done is to implement a new gui that takes 
> advantage of the new
> features of opensync (it can display the progress for example, allow 
> syncgroups etc). I thought about implementing the new gui in qt4 so we 
> can use the same gui for linux, windows and mac."

Ok. As usual, the choice of a toolkit (qt4, gtk+, etc.) will become a
religious issue... One comment: if opensync is designed the way I am
understanding, it could be a good idea to use an interpreted language
for the gui (Tk, python, whatever); that would make it easily portable
across OSs, windowing environments, etc.

> i didnt publicize too strong yet since the usefulness of opensync is 
> still very limited since the syncml plugin is missing. my idea was to 
> "go public" once we have at least something to show.
> 
> But maybe it really is a good idea to start with this now by just 
> telling the people what the idea and the goal of opensync is and then do 
> the same again once we reached the stage where the syncml plugin is working.
> Maybe this would work: Start polishing the opensync.org website with the 
> information about opensync so that it is immediately clear what opensync 
> is and what it does (improve the wiki and the whitepaper etc), then try 
> to get it onto some news sites.
> 
> /me thinks we need someone with knowledge in marketing :)

I, of course, agree; "release early, release often" (as someone a lot
more qualified than me once said) also applies to documentation and
plans. Unluckily, I am no marketing buff...

Best regards.

-- 
Gonzalo Diethelm
[email protected]



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