On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:39:31PM +0100, Graham Cobb wrote: > On Tuesday 29 April 2008 15:18:01 hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 08:40:30PM -0400, Gary Baribault wrote: > > > I kind of wish that someone would start up an oposing PIM .. Any takers? > > > 450$ to play Mahjong or Blocks seems a little steep! > > I didn't start working on GPE because I thought it was a great project: I > started working on GPE because I had a need for a PIM on the Internet Tablet > and it seemed more sensible to start with an existing piece of software and > make improvements rather than create something from scratch. > > It doesn't seem likely to me that starting an opposing PIM would help. There > are few enough people to work on one -- what would be achieved by trying to > work on two? All of people's pet peeves with GPE (bugs, UI, features) could > be fixed if there were one or two more developers with time to make a > contribution. Fopr the sake of argument, let's suppose I'm convinced. Now comes the question of what I can do to join the project in orger to develop the todo list. I regularly use two machines -- a 32-bit Debian Lenny, and a 64-but Debian etch. No, make that three machines -- I have an n800 with OS2007. I haven't upgraded to 2008 for two reasons: (1) inertia and (2) I've heard a lot of complaints about 2008. Presumably I have to install development software that's specific to Debian and to the n800, as well as relevant versioning system(s). What do I need? How do I get started with it? Do I need to convince anyone that my ideas (such as nonautomatic task ordering) are worthwhile? -- hendrik > > > I've certainly considered it -- but first I want to put together a sync > > mechanism that > > * doesn't care how many places you sync with, > > * doesn't care whether the places sync amongst each other. > > * provides syntactic guarantees about merged updates. > > Such a sync mechanism I need for more things than an improved PIM. > > Sync mechanisms are also something that seems to become much more complex than > one expects when one starts. I would encourage you to contribute to > improving OpenSync if possible, rather than start yet another project. If > nothing else, there are people on the OpenSync list who have tackled many of > these problems and who may have useful advice. It is another project where a > usable product is in sight but there are not enough developer-hours to get > there at the speed we would wish. > > Graham > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
