Alex Hudson
2010-06-26 13:00:38 UTC
Hey everyone,
As a bit of follow-up to the UI meeting yesterday, I just put up a blog
post about what we discussed and some new bits of code we had a demo of:
http://www.alexhudson.com/2010/06/26/bongo-roundcube/
I'll not repeat the contents of that here.
Going into the technical stuff, although this setup is installed and
basically working here, there are a number of things we'd need to do to
make this "releasable":
* we need to check the IMAP support - in particular, making sure
everything like search is working correctly;
* the address book plugin works pretty well: you have access to
your personal and shared Bongo contacts, read and write
(depending on the sharing permissions). However, the internal
format it's using is a bit basic right now: we need to revive
the full jCard support from Hula;
* the identities support ought to be server-side - previously
we've said this would be done with jCards too;
* ideally I'd love the SQL requirement to go; all the
configuration can be done in PHP and/or pulled from the Store.
However, this could mean hacking core bits of Roundcube because
it's pretty deep ingrained.
In terms of the other parts of Bongo, I think it would be nice to have
at least the beginnings of an admin UI, which Steve had talked about
starting - a lot of the previous graphical assets can likely be reused
for this easily.
We do want to get rid of the Queue at some point, but I'm wondering if
we can do that release after next. I'd like to hear what others think
about this though - potentially there are more pressing problems with
the Store (gmime usage reliability and mail delivery performance being
probably the two pressing concerns).
Thanks
Alex.
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As a bit of follow-up to the UI meeting yesterday, I just put up a blog
post about what we discussed and some new bits of code we had a demo of:
http://www.alexhudson.com/2010/06/26/bongo-roundcube/
I'll not repeat the contents of that here.
Going into the technical stuff, although this setup is installed and
basically working here, there are a number of things we'd need to do to
make this "releasable":
* we need to check the IMAP support - in particular, making sure
everything like search is working correctly;
* the address book plugin works pretty well: you have access to
your personal and shared Bongo contacts, read and write
(depending on the sharing permissions). However, the internal
format it's using is a bit basic right now: we need to revive
the full jCard support from Hula;
* the identities support ought to be server-side - previously
we've said this would be done with jCards too;
* ideally I'd love the SQL requirement to go; all the
configuration can be done in PHP and/or pulled from the Store.
However, this could mean hacking core bits of Roundcube because
it's pretty deep ingrained.
In terms of the other parts of Bongo, I think it would be nice to have
at least the beginnings of an admin UI, which Steve had talked about
starting - a lot of the previous graphical assets can likely be reused
for this easily.
We do want to get rid of the Queue at some point, but I'm wondering if
we can do that release after next. I'd like to hear what others think
about this though - potentially there are more pressing problems with
the Store (gmime usage reliability and mail delivery performance being
probably the two pressing concerns).
Thanks
Alex.
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