Hi Robert,
You've been picking off some really juicy tickets. Great to hear
you're ready for more!
Search is being developed here, and we're not quite ready to throw a
third body onto the problem. We are working from a feature branch
(feature/search), so you can easily monitor progress. I suspect once
we land all the plumbing (which may or may not be the same time we
merge with master) we'll be ready to open up the work to more hands.
Offline mode is something I'd like to spend more time architecting
before diving in. Also, I'm working on a rework of the IMAP layer
(#5224) that will have a direct effect on how offline mode will be
implemented, so I need more time before we can start on it.
Inline replies would be a huge feature to land. I can appreciate that
this isn't a big deal for you, but I know many people are waiting for
it. It's also a feature that, in my mind, "seals" Geary's
conversation-based interface and makes it stand out against existing
Linux mail clients. In the same vein, moving the composer window into
the main window (http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4554) would be great
as well and make Geary seem more like a "uniform" application.
Another one that doesn't seem like much but is actually a real sticking
point is to indicate the unread message count in the folder list
(http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3694). If you want to pick up on
Charles' branch or start from scratch, I'll leave up to you. As
Charles' indicated in his notes, there's more work to be done in the
Engine to gather and store unread message counts. I'd be happy to help
you there.
Those are my nominees. Feel free to ask more questions here or on the
tickets themselves.
Thanks!
-- Jim
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Robert Schroll <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi all,
With #5642 finished, I've cleared out my current to-do list for
Geary. There's a few directions I might go next, so I thought I'd
check to see which would be the most productive. There are two
missing features that keep me from using Geary full time. I don't
know if I should work on those, or if it would be better to attack
some smaller issues to free up others to work on them.
The first missing feature is search, and it looks like that's already
being taken care of. If there's some part of that I could help with,
please let me know. Otherwise, I'll stay out of the way on this.
The second missing feature is offline mode (#3767). I suspect this
is also a fairly large project, since everything that might query the
server has to be told what to do when the server isn't available. If
there's some sort of a plan here that would make sense for me to work
on, I'm willing. But I'm not the person to make that plan if it
doesn't exist.
There are two somewhat smaller, or at least more well-defined, areas
that might be more productive for me. First, there are several bugs
related to identifying more things as attachments (attached emails,
attachments in attached emails, inline parts). While I'm not
familiar with this part of the code, there does seem to be a density
of targets that could make it worthwhile for me to learn.
The other project would be inline replies (#4554). This interests me
less, but it does touch on two areas (conversation view and composer)
that I know pretty well. Since this is targeted for 0.5, I'm
guessing that this isn't much of a priority at the moment, but I
would be happy to work on it.
There's also numerous smaller bugs that I might make some progress
on. I don't know what the schedule for 0.4 looks like, but if you'd
prefer bugfixing to new features at this time, please say so.
So let me know which of these is most desired, or if there's
something I haven't considered that would be helpful. I won't
promise to follow your recommendation, but I will weigh it when
considering what to do next.
Thanks,
Robert
P.S. Two Redmine questions:
1) Some bugs I watch because I want to know what's happening with
them, while others I watch because I might want to work on them. But
I have to try to remember which is which when look through to find
one to work on. Are there any tricks for tagging bugs so that I can
get a list just of bugs I might want to work on?
2) The Redmine comment box is absurdly wide. Every time I make a
comment, I have to start by scrolling to the right and then dragging
the corner back to the left to give it a reasonable width. Is there
anything you can do on the backend to fix this? Thanks.
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