Bug 24547

Summary:	tinymail as a freedesktop.org project
Product:	freedesktop.org	Reporter:	Sergio Villar Senin <svillar>
Component:	Project Creation Requests	Assignee:	fd.o Admin Massive <sitewranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Sergio Villar Senin 2009-10-15 02:24:22 UTC

My name is Sergio Villar Senin, I'm one of the maintainers of tinymail and we'd like to propose it as freedesktop.org project as we think that, being a general, toolkit-independent framework, it fits perfectly in the freedesktop.org project.

Tinymail is a library for developing efficient email applications, mainly targeted for mobile devices. The framework provides components that aid the developer with the user interface but of course also with the connectivity and all the protocol stuff. It supports local mail storage (Maildir,mh,spool & mbox), IMAP, POP and NNTP. It can be used to send messages over SMTP and by using sendmail.

It implements certain default ui components that can be used out of the box. Currently we have implementations for Gtk+ widgets but the framework allow the creation of widgets for other toolkits as Qt for example.

Tinymail currently supports different platforms out of the box as GNOME, Maemo, OLPC or GPE.

Finally it's licensed under the LGPL.

PS: See tinymail.org for more project details.

Comment 1 Philip Van Hoof 2009-10-15 02:36:23 UTC

As maintainer of this project I'm ok with Sergio's (co-maintainer) proposal.

Comment 2 Sergio Villar Senin 2009-10-28 05:43:33 UTC

Hi guys,

almost 2 weeks since I filed the proposal. Can you give us at least some feedback, like it's under study or something?

Thx!

Comment 3 Benjamin Close 2010-02-28 19:36:11 UTC

What infrustructure would you be after at fd.o?

Comment 4 Sergio Villar Senin 2010-03-01 00:22:36 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> What infrustructure would you be after at fd.o?
> 

We'd like to move everything possible to f.d.o, this means

Comment 5 Sergio Villar Senin 2010-03-01 00:24:41 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> What infrustructure would you be after at fd.o?
> 

We'd like to move everything possible to f.d.o, this means

   * git repo
   * bugzilla
   * mailing list
   * project page (like http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus) were to put project information, documentation, packages...

Comment 6 Sergio Villar Senin 2010-03-16 04:17:19 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > What infrustructure would you be after at fd.o?
> > 
> 
> We'd like to move everything possible to f.d.o, this means
> 
>    * git repo
>    * bugzilla
>    * mailing list
>    * project page (like http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus) were to
> put project information, documentation, packages...
> 

BTW we have moved the git repository to gitorious.org so we wouldn't need it from f.d.o

Comment 7 Tollef Fog Heen 2010-10-07 07:07:13 UTC

Short answer: No, sorry, I don't think tinymail is appropriate for fdo.  

Tinymail seems more geared towards mobile than desktops, while fdo is targetting desktops more than mobile.  Also, I'm not sure in what way Tinymail helps ensuring a world of X desktop interoperability.  Good luck forward, though.

Comment 8 Sergio Villar Senin 2010-10-08 00:51:24 UTC

(In reply to comment #7)
> Short answer: No, sorry, I don't think tinymail is appropriate for fdo.  
> 
> Tinymail seems more geared towards mobile than desktops, while fdo is
> targetting desktops more than mobile.  Also, I'm not sure in what way Tinymail
> helps ensuring a world of X desktop interoperability.  Good luck forward,
> though.

I have to completely disagree with that :-). We're only *emphasizing* its use for mobile devices because we focused a lot on memory saving and performance in general, but tinymail can be used in any kind of desktop. I'd like to know the rationale behind the idea that tinymail does not target desktops because if you take a look at the code there is none. Actually most of the code of tinymail comes from Camel, the email library used by evolution, one of the most used email clients for desktops and not mobiles.

Regarding interoperability, tinymail is designed in a way it does not depend on any desktop in particular, its only heavy dependency is glib. Having an desktop-independent email library looks like something desirable IMHO. Again taking a look at the code, tinymail has been successfully used in GNOME, Maemo, Moblin, Sugar(OLPC). At least I don't see the difference with other f.d.o software like libburn, exempi or geoclue.

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