wiki:hackers

OpenSync Hackers

List of OpenSync developers and some further information about what they are working on.

Nick Name TZ Ctry City Email Status
abauer Armin Bauer UTC+1 de Munich inactive Armin is working for his StartUp: Amiando
abaumann Andrew Baumann UTC+1 ch inactive
apotter Andrew Potter UTC+1 de Dortmund apc@andypotter.org active moto-sync for SVLR L9 and Opensync upgrade. By necessity dabbling with the python-module, SWIG and kdepim.
azeem Michael Bank UTC+1 de active Packaging for Debian
bellmich Michael Bell UTC+1 de Berlin michael DOT bell AT web DOT de active SyncML hacking
boto,
ehabkost
Eduardo Habkost UTC-0200 br Curitiba ehabkost@raisama.net inactive Sync engine hacking on the early days of the project, first version of KDE plugin, google calendar plugin
cdfrey Chris Frey UTC-05:00 (DST -04:00) ca Ontario, Waterloo cdfrey@netdirect.ca incative timezone support, main interest is to complete the Blackberry plugin for the Barry project
cstender Christopher Stender UTC+1 de Nüremberg cstender AT suse DOT de inactive Part-Time-Hacking: finish vformat plugin and iCal implementation
dfriedrich, f-bert Daniel Friedrich UTC+1 de Chemnitz inactive Wrote the inital merger code, plus other hacking.
dgollub Daniel Gollub UTC+1 de Nuremberg dgollub AT opensync DOT org active Core components, Unittests, Whitepaper
duwe Torsten Duwe active Qtopia plugin
fm Felix Möller UTC+1 de Münster felix AT derklecks DOT de active Bugtracker cleaning, testing
ianmartin Ian Martin UTC uk ianmartin AT cantab DOT net active Evolution connector and bits of core when needed
jerryyu Jerry Yu ch Beijing jijun.yu@sun.com inactive Was porting palm plugin to 0.30 API
paule, bluelightning Paul Eggleton UTC uk London bluelightning AT bluelightning DOT org active Working on opie-sync plugin
prahal UTC+1 inactive
tuju Juha Tuomala UTC+2 ee Tallinn tuju@iki.fi active Project janitor. Can write python, shell stuff. RPM packaging.
bricks Bjoern Ricks UTC+1 de Osnabrueck bjoern.ricks@googlemail.com active CMake Build environment, Core components, tomboy-sync
npieper inactive
samm Alex Samorukov UTC+1 cz Prague samm@os2.kiev.ua active FreeBSD testing and maintaining some (libsyncml, opensync-plugin-*) FreeBSD ports.
teprrr Teemu Rytilahti UTC+2 fi tpr d5k.net active
ChrisH Christian Hilgers UTC+1 de Duesseldorf Christian.Hilgers@ConSol.de active Debian, Solaris testing. continous build hosts
Savago Adenilson Cavalcanti UTC-0400 br Manaus active libgcal; new generation of google calendar plugin
mkoller Martin Koller UTC+1 at Frohsdorf m.koller@surfeu.at inactive kdepim-sync for KDE3
henrik Henrik Kaare Poulsen UTC+1 dk Roskilde "myNick" AT kaarposoft DOT "myCtry" active Synchronize Thunderbird with bluetooth phone bluezync.kaarposoft.dk/
gcobb Graham Cobb UTC uk Oxford g+opensync AT cobb DOT uk DOT net active GPE plugin, Maemo (Nokia Internet Tablet) packaging
denisq Quentin Denis UTC+1 be Brussels quentin AT links2linux DOT de active Wiki, documentation, trying to hack on kitchensync

Please add yourself into table. Maintainers should read developer corner material.

Maintainers / Specialities - Main

If the list is missing an area or people, fill it in if possible. One person should not take too big chunk to avoid overloading himself, especially when the real life sometimes disturbs hacking.

area responsible backup hackers
core dgollub bricks, f-bert, paule, prahal, cdfrey
vformat1 cstender prahal, cdfrey
merger f-bert
osynctool dgollub
libsyncml bellmich
cmake bricks
python-api1 ehabkost, abaumann
docs tuju
1 Core plugins. Problems with these will block releases

Maintainers / Specialities - Plugins

pluginresponsiblebackuphackers
akonadi teprrr vkrause
barry-sync cdfrey http://netdirect.ca/barry
evolution ianmartin
file-sync1 dgollub
gnokii-sync dgollub
google-calendar2 cdfrey Savago, ehabkost
irmc-sync
kdepim-sync1 mkoller
ldap
moto-sync abaumann
opie-sync paule
palm-sync npieper, jerryyu
qtopia duwe
syncml1 dgollub prahal
tomboy-format bricks
tomboy bricks
mozilla-sync henrik OpenSync plugin and OpenSync frontend for Thunderbird/Sunbird/Lightning
Lives at bluezync.kaarposoft.dk/
gpe-sync gcobb

1 Core plugins. Problems with these will block releases

2Savago is working on a plugin fully in C, using his Google Calendar / GData library, libgcal

Maintainers / Specialities - Devel Environment

area responsiblebackup desc
subversion fm tuju
trac tuju fm,cstender,prahal,bellmich,dgollub
wiki denisq ChrisH,tuju,bricks
cdash dgollub (please only contact in critical incidence)
opensync.org dgollub (please only contact in critical incidence)

In case some change is needed, responsible and backups have rights to do that. Please don't bother anyone else with your requests as that just consumes valuable developing time.

Continuous Build Host Administrators

 http://opensync.org/testing

host responsiblebackup description
clio3 ChrisH debian stable cont. builder
aachen ChrisH debian unstable cont. builder
stolberg ChrisH sparc cont. builder
gonzo bricks Ubuntu 8.04 x64 SMP cont. builder
opensync-cz samm cont. builder
opensync-ua samm cont. builder

More information about build environment can be found from  CDash interface.

Architechtures

Table for contacts who have access to bit more rare environments than PC based systems.

arch OS hacker
OM Freerunner Qtopia
OM 2008.8
tuju
x86_64 Linux tuju
x86_64 Mac OS 10.5 bricks
sparc solaris jerryyu

Distribution Camp

In what camp are you? Debian? Ubuntu? SUSE? Fedora? Gentoo? This is the preferred distribution, years of use and hacking. You can be asked distro specific questions about OpenSync and you know yourself in this distro. This is also useful for devlopment environment maintenance planning.

nickdistro
chrishDebian, Solaris
f-bertUbuntu
prahalDebian
tujuFedora, Centos, RHEL
ehabkostFedora (and also Mandriva, on a previous life)
gcobbMaemo
bellmichDebian
denisqopenSUSE

Typical Hacking Hours

Hours (UTC TZ) when there is most likely activity in IRC channels.

hacker 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
dgollub
tuju
bricks

Note that this is somewhat private information - publicly visible to anyone and only fill in yourself if you feel like it doesn't matter who sees it. Cell 00 stands for 00:00-01:00 UTC.

Distribution Packaging

distro packager
freeBSD samm
openSUSE cstender
Debian azeem
Gentoo
Fedora tuju
Maemo gcobb

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