Comments on: CalDav support for Symbian: a contribution by Sun Microsystems

By: woohoo, CalDAV support for symbian! « he1ix' blog

woohoo, CalDAV support for symbian! « he1ix' blog — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:42:57 +0000

[...] finally, CalDAV evolves to a pretty common standard. sun microsystems is about to contribute a client for symbian: blog.symbian.org. [...]

By: Stewart Bazley

Stewart Bazley — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:40:36 +0000

When will this become available. We are very interesed in this functionality.

By: JT

JT — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:21:09 +0000

please let me know when this app is ready.

thanks,
JT

By: Lars

Lars — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:39:10 +0000

@Viipottaja: Only big contributions need to be approved by the councils. For example the addition of CalDAV support did not need to get approved by the councils. In some cases, a contributor may decide to go through the councils, because it provides a more formal way to get feedback, to ensure that nobody else is privately working on the same problem or to help ensure that a contribution will go into all Symbian devices.

The following document gives you a good ovverview: http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Contribution_Process

By: Viipottaja

Viipottaja — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:46:25 +0000

I’ve been meaning to ask, and I realise this is not exactly the right thread, but here goes:

I’ve seen some of these (paraphrasing heavily) “Major contribution from X was received and it now goes [IF I'VE UNDERSTOOD CORRECTLY ] to this multistep approval process by the Council” posts here, and some of them seem blatantly obvious no brainers (such as “get rid of doubletap” that the SF foundation staff or at the very least the council itself (without having to wait for these “Contributions) should (in my honest opininion) be able to integrate to the SF platform on their own (and I though e.g. that move to single tap throughout was part of the roadmap anyway).

My point is: if integration of changes is as bureaucratic as it seems, I wonder how you can ensure and maintain the speed of (at times indeed obvious looking) needed changes to the OS and UI?

Would very much appreciate some illumination on this.

By: calconnect

calconnect — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:59:22 +0000

Sun tested their CalDAV client plug-in at the last CalConnect Interoperability Test Event earlier this month (October 5-7) against multiple CalDAV servers and seemed pleased with how the tests progressed.

Dave Thewlis
Executive Director, CalConnect

By: Update on Sun’s CalDAV Plug-in for Symbian « The CalConnect Blog

Update on Sun’s CalDAV Plug-in for Symbian « The CalConnect Blog — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:45:28 +0000

[...] an update on their CalDAV client plug-in for the Symbian Operating system on the Symbian blog. See http://blog.symbian.org/2009/10/22/caldav-support-for-symbian-a-contribution-by-sun-microsystems/ for the full [...]