The first big step was to make the setup of Akonadi as easy as possible. Now you just have to start the 'akonadi_control' application and all other components of Akonadi, including the external MySQL process, are started automatically so you can begin to read and write data from/to the storage right away.

To be able to test the functionality effectively the application 'akonadiconsole' (which is supposed to be a test application only) was extended to support displaying type specific information. Only a few lines of code later it was able to show contacts stored in Akonadi

Under the hood the code of Akonadi was cleaned up and the API of libakonadi improved for easier extension in the future.

Also the roadmap of the project was refined and the next steps to take clarified, so on the server side the API of the resources (that are plugins which communicate between the Akonadi storage and external sources e.g. groupware servers) will be simplified to allow 3rd party developers to create new resources by just reimplementing 3 virtual methods.ˇ

On the client side the next steps will include writing models for all kind of PIM data (e.g. mails, contacts, events, todos) which fetch their data from Akonadi. This task is covered by a Google Summer of Code project. Another step will be to write components like editors and viewers which work standalone with the Akonadi storage and provide features like live-update on changes and conflict resolution, new developers for these tasks are always welcome :)

In the picture below you can see the participants of this meeting:

From left to right:

• Ingo Kloecker: KMail hacking
• Cornelius Schumacher: KOrganizer hacking
• Till Adam: Akonadi storage
• Robert Zwerus: Akonadi database storage
• Tobias Koenig: Akonadi storage and libraries
• Frank Osterfeld: Akregator and feeds model hacking
• Volker Krause: Akonadi poster boy :)

All in all it was a great meeting at a great location with great people.

If you are interested in helping the Akonadi team with development, documentation writing or artistic work, feel free to contacts us via mail or join the IRC channel #kontact on irc.kde.org.

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