[maemo-developers] [GSoC 09] - Remember The Milk plugin for Canola - report 1

[From: Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Andrey Popelo<andrey at popelo.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This is a first report for "Remember The Milk plugin for Canola" GSoC
> 09 project.
>
> In previous two weeks I was studying Canola source code and started
> with creating a simple skeleton of a plugin. I talked with my mentor
> and we decided to move forward iteratively: at first create an app
> which just works with network connection and shows tasks using
> standard ui elements. Then add local tasks storing functionality,
> syncronization and new ui elements.
>
> After two weeks of work we already have a plugin which allows to
> browse tasks for today and tomorrow, browse lists and tasks inside
> lists and search for tasks. I recorded a small video[1] (~30 sec)
> which shows how it works.
>
> Source code available at code.openbossa.org[2], installation
> instructions available on a wiki page[3].
>
> Plan for the next week:
>  * improve current plugin - add ability to view task properties and
> create new tasks, so we will have something a bit usable already
>  * start implementing local tasks storing functionality

good work, nice video! I hope you and the other developers are liking
the Canola infrastructure and find it easy to create the plugins. Of
course you have a learning curve, learn the plugin setup black-magic
and how to use/extend components like lists and dialogs, but after
that things come easy :-)

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