On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:22 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > Hey, > > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 12:29 -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: > > Hey there Srini, list, > > > > I spoke with you the other day on IRC about the upcoming MAPI release. > > I'm jhbuild'ing evolution now and will check out and build from > > EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH after everything builds correctly from trunk. > > > > > What is the policy regarding committing patches to this branch? > We commit every few lines on our disk to the branch :)
Does "we" include me? :) > > My mail admins moved my mailbox from an exchange 2003 server to 2007 > > without telling me first. This caused a few days of downtime and quite > > a bit of frustration. I'd like to start using the "official" interface > > to the exchange server in order to minimize this type of problem in the > > future. > > > > How closely is the Evolution team working with the Exchange team? > Part of the evolution team at Novell is doing this work. I don't > think/know of any agreement for MAPI/Evolution related in that. We are > using OpenChange based libmapi to connect to the Exchange Server and it > works pretty well. > > I was looking for a pre-release this week but due to some issues and > holidays in India I think this might be pushed a week or two later. In > the whole I'm looking at a feature complete around GNOME 2.22 release. > Unfortunately I'm not sure, if I can commit to the GNOME release or not, > since this code has some licensing issues which I'm still working at > Novell to clear them off. If I can help with that, let me know. I'm biking distance from the Exchange team. > Only after that I can commit the code to the > Evolution trunk. Is this keeping you from committing to the EXCHANGE_MAPI_BRANCH branch? It sounds like it's not. How often are changes from trunk integrated back to the MAPI branch? > Till then I'm hoping is to have weekly/biweekly > opensuse buildservice packages for SUSE/Fedora/Debian (What ever OBS > supports) for testing and help us back. If any one wants to help us in > getting the OBS ready, your help is welcome. Hmmm... What's OBS, and does it build RHEL3 packages, perchance? > -Srini. Cheers, C.J.
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