Hi all, Just a heads up and some info about the latest developments in the Reminders app and how this will affect setting up the environment for those contributing to the app.
Thanks to many of you, we've seen a flurry of updates in the app next week, which is quite awesome. Even more when you think this happened in between UDS sessions! We saw changes in all fronts: on the backend, we gained a new Evernote authentication plugin and the first implementation of the API plugin to talk to the Evernote service. On the frontend, new Notes, Notebooks and Reminders view. Thank you everyone for your hard work on this, it's really cool to see the good progress we're making. So here's a quick overview of some things to bear in mind when doing development or testing from now on: 1) Evernote account plugin - You'll need to create an account on https://sandbox.evernote.com - Install the Evernote authentication plugin and log in - This works on the desktop and on the phone - On the phone, you'll need to set it to RW mode More details: http://davidplanella.org/ubuntu-reminders-app-gets-evernote-authentication/ 2) Evernote API plugin Michael Zanetti has been busy lately creating a C++ QML plugin that does the work of talking to the Evernote service and passing the notes data back and forth to/from the QML frontend. For more detail on the work, please refer to the work items in the blueprint. This landed to trunk on Friday and has meant a bit of reorganization in the source tree. In summary: - The Reminders app project now contains both the backend code in C++ and the frontend code in QML - The type of project has changed from .qmlproject (QML-only) to .pro (mixed C++ and QML). The file to open in Qt Creator now is reminders-app.pro - For core app developers this won't imply any changes: as before, the focus will be on the QML backend, but we're putting together a task force to develop the C++ backend code, so if you've got C++ skills too, you'll be more than welcome to join this effort!. - To run the app, you'll need to install libssl-dev and libboost-dev. After that, you just press the "Play" button in Qt Creator and it will take care of building the backend the first time and to run the app. - There is a merge proposal pending that will include a script to make it easy to run the app and the backend on the phone 3) Burn-down chart The burn-down chart to track the progress and help us prioritizing tasks to deliver the app this cycle is now up at: http://status.ubuntu.com/coreapps-14.04/reminders-app-dev.html We can talk about it in more detail in the next meeting, but essentially, it gets the data from the work items in the blueprint, reflecting their completion status, and our goal is to keep the trend line above the red/orange TODO items If you've got any questions, please let us know! Cheers, David
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