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Friday I bagged and tagged Evolution 2.0.1 which has now been released.

Saturday’s a rugby day – played lock for the first XV, there are pictures . Saturday night I went to hang out with my cousins down by Bowmanville lodge poker tournament. It was shootout format, I won my table and then finished second at the final table.

Sunday I fixed a few items around the house then watched footbal. My brother came up for dinner and then we went to see Garden State, which I really enjoyed.

The first three days of this week I spent time organizing some patches, attending meetings and responding to a lot of email. Nothing terribly exciting. On Friday I hope to spend most of the day getting to a near final state on the feature list for 2.2.

Tonight Tara and I started prenatal classes, only 6 weeks to go!

Marco: I believe you are correct on the headers and mozilla issue, I recall this coming up before.

Found the pilot syncing bug and fixed it. Hunted down more 2.0.1 bugs for a release tomorrow.

Finally committed the fixes to Evolution cvs mainline so 2.1 builds now.

Rugby practice, selected for the first XV again. Finally league game, cup is next.

Still tackling 2.0.1 bugs, sticking on a pilot syncing bug right now, the behaviour is rather odd.

Sent one last request for comments on EDS Versioning.

Did the second coat on the kitchen walls. Painting done, now I can sand and re-varnish the floors and hook up all the electrical again.

Hacked on 2.0.1 most of the day today. Talked to NotZed about EDS versioning, I think i’m going to bump the .pc files, the library names, etc to have a -1.2 suffix. We just can’t commit yet to a binary compatible API until we know what issues the 3rd party developers are going to have.

For gnome-about-me I believe there are two separate issues, one is a system configuration/authentication issue (ie changing the password), login shell, etc and the other (that e-d-s is more suited for) is the concept of the user’s identity for use in a variety of apps like gnome-meeting or planner and for things like presence (although as Toshok points out these could co-exist at least in some cases). I’m beginning to think that e-d-s might want to have an capplet for setting default addressbook (think right click on a mailto: url in web browser and have it automatically added to your address book), default calendar (for use by things like evolution-webcal), default task list (think quick applet to add tasks), setting the “self” contact.

Not much of a real life today, worked just about all day except for two meals and picking up the vehicle from servicing.

Finally got the 2.0.0 Release Notes up. Fixed a couple of small bugs and worked on a larger one, but GtkTreeView in place editing is causing me some momentary confusion.

Delivered the Sun Enterprise 250 server I had sitting around back to the Novell office in Toronto, I haven’t used it in ages now.

Went to the pub with Tara for dinner – leftover Monday’s at the local, everything $6.95.

Davyd: you might want to look at Evolver. It only works with 1.4.x of Evolution but alp said he will port to NotZed’s EPlugin for 2.2. EPlugin has a new mail hook so you can do a variety of things based on new mail coming in.

I wrote up the release notes for 2.0.0 on Friday, should get them out tomorrow. Fixed more of the versioning in the Evolution mainline, waiting for response to my EDS versioning mail from gnome-panel, gnome-meeting, contact applet people. Worked on some 2.0.1 bug fixes so we can clear that and get on to 2.2 work.

Played a little online poker Friday night, 5/10 at Party Poker.

Played rugby on Saturday for the first XV (I play for the Aurora Barbarians. We tied, which is a rather unusual result. No scoring for me, but what do you expect from a lock other than hard scrummaging and big hits in rucks and mauls. After that went to dinner with Tara and friends, good Spanish tapas at Casa Barcelona. Enjoyed the nice Faustino V Rioja, I’m on the look out for this wine every since Rodrigo gave me a bottle three years ago. I’m setting Spain as a vacation goal next year.

Sunday I spent painting, Tara’s parents came up and her dad helped my paint the walls, “Bytown Blue”. RML doesn’t have a prayer of overcoming the huge lead I’ve built up for fantasy football despite having three players playing on Monday night.

NotZed merged Evolution and EDS mainlines into the gnome-2-8 branches so that the mainlines can be for 2.2 work.

Spent a bunch of time trying to get the versioning right, this will be a long night.

Rugby practice, selected for first XV this weekend.

Actually did some hacking today, fixed a couple of bugs and went through more bug reports. Reviewed all the GroupWise ones in a meeting. Didn’t quite get to branching Evolution. Updated the website a bit.

Pleased to see GNOME 2.8 out.

Painted the ceiling one last time in the kitchen. Now for the walls.

Tara had another ultrasound today, the baby to be is now waying in at a hefty 5lbs 6oz (aren’t we a metric country?) and still 8 weeks to go!

Spent the day catching up on email and tidying up loose ends and then looked at a few Evolution pilot syncing bugs.

On the weekend Tara and I picked up a PVR. No Tivo in Canada, but Rogers Cable offers roughly the equivalent all in one digital cable tuner and PVR. Seems ok, holds about 50 hours of programming and has an option to record all episodes of a program (sort of a Season Ticket). Can record two different channels at once or you can record on one and tape another. Provides picture in picture too (handy for tracking my fantasy football players).

Finished putting together the crib tonight and Tara put out the bedding set (Farm Animals).

Ground through the last 2.0.0 bugs with the release team who were great through the whole process. Lining up a huge project like Evolution with another huge project like GNOME is a non trivial task. There were rough edges of course, but now that we’re here we can move forward and build off this. I should have the release notes out tomorrow or Wednesday.

Never ones to rest on our laurels, we have a couple weeks of work to do to get out a 2.0.1 and then on to 2.2, with cool stuff like EPlugin.