PIM/Akonadi/Roadmap

Roadmap

The following list contains the things which need to be done for Akonadi.

Note: The person noted in the "Contact" column is not necessarily the one implementing that feature, but the one who can tell you what to do and how to help, i.e. you can also contribute to those tasks ;-)

There is also a more detailed page about bugs and missing features of things that are currently ported here.

KDE 4.1 / Akonadi 1.0

Urgent tasks that need to be finished for the KDE 4.1 release (May 19th):

Status	Item	Description	Contact
DONE	Item streaming in ItemSync/ResourceBase	As discussed in Osnabrueck
DONE	Payload serialization format versioning	see below [email protected]
DONE	API for additional item parts	As discussed in Osnabruck
DONE	Infrastructure for showing additional dialogs from agents/resources	As discussed in Osnabrueck
DONE	Allow to limit ItemFetchJob to current cache content	Prevents search index feeder agents from downloading all remote data
DONE	Fix API for item/collection modifications	See Osnabrueck meeting notes for details
DONE	Plugin Versioning	For serializer plugins, also check using Qt plugin stuff instead of the libkdepim plugin framework
DONE	Tray app	small app to control the server and have a something that can report errors
DONE	Backup support	Dump & Restore database contents, also useful when upgrading to a newer database version
DONE	Akonadi Artwork	Icon for the tray app

KDE 4.2 / Akonadi 1.1

That's the stuff we want to have in 4.2, very roughly ordered by priority. Releases are scheduled for early January 2009.

Status	Item	Description	Contact
DONE	Server error reporting	Helpful error message when the server cannot be started or if there is some other problem communicating with it.
DONE	KResource migration tool	For KABC and KCal resources, setting up Akonadi <-> KResource bridges where needed
DONE	KResource bridges	Basically finished, needs more testing
DONE	Distribution Lists	Serializer Plugin and resource support
DONE	Complete iCal resource	error handling, robustness, legacy formats, file montitoring
DONE	Complete vCard resource	same as iCal + binary legacy format
DONE	Item size	Needed by Mailody
DONE	LINK/UNLINK commands	Managing item references in virtual collections
DONE	Akonadi Testrunner	Running tests in a self contained Akonadi setup
DONE	Remote file support for iCal/vCard resources	Replaces net/remote KRes resources
DONE	Solid integration	Switch online/offline state in ResourceBase automatically

KDE 4.3 / Akonadi 1.2

Stuff that went into KDE 4.3 and Akonadi server 1.2.

Status	Item	Description	Contact
DONE	Fix unit tests	Make unittests work without destroying the production database
DONE	Filesystem Backend	Store content data in files instead of the database, transfer filehandles instead of data to the client
DONE	IMAP resource
DONE	Kolab proxy resource
DONE	RID based operations	Item/collection retrieval and modification based on remote identifiers
DONE	Microblog Support	Type library, serializer plugin, identi.ca/twitter resources
DONE	ResourceBase::collectionsRetrievalDone is missing	I'm working around by calling collectionsRetrievedIncremental() with empty collection lists

KDE 4.4 / Akonadi 1.3

The following is being worked on for KDE 4.4 and Akonadi server 1.3.

Status	Item	Description	Contact
DONE	Port KAddressBook	Replace with KContactManager
DONE	Resource testing framework	Automated, shareable tests for resources
IN PROGRESS	Review change notifications	See the various discussions about shortcomings in that area
DONE	Collection statistics for sub-trees	Provide a CollectionStatus object covering the full sub-tree in the model, allowing accumulated unread counts etc.
DONE	Favorite Folder Model	see current KMail
DONE	Batch jobs for modifying/deleting collections/items	it would be great to have jobs which perform operations on several entities in one go
DONE	Collection streaming support in ResourceBase/CollectionSync	Similar to what is available for items already
DONE	MBox resource

Scheduled for KDE 4.5 / Akonadi 1.4

Stuff that is planned for inclusion in 4.5, partly already available in the akonadi-ports branch.

Status	Item	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Port KOrganizer	Port from KResource to Akonadi
DONE	Account creation wizard	as discussed in Berlin, see below
IN PROGRESS	KMail port	KMail using Akonadi
IN PROGRESS	Remote Search	Delegating searches to resources, see below

Post KDE 4.5 /Akonadi 1.4

This stuff is currently not considered for 4.5 due to lack of resources. Of course it will be added nevertheless if someone implements it. The list is completely unsorted.

Status	Item	Description	Contact
TO DO	Error reporting	Akonadi::Job basically has only one error code: Unknown	<Tobias>
IN PROGRESS	Port KNotes	File resource, serializer plugin, KNotes application, Kontact plugin
TO DO	Batch job to retrieve a set of items from Akonadi	Those items don't belong to the same collection, rather they are located in different collections
TO DO	CollectionFetchJob/ItemFetchJob should be able to retrieve entities by flags/mimetype	This is problematic with change notifications, as they have to know about the filtering with the \Seen flag as well. This type of filtering would be possible with full Nepomuk interface though. We don't want yet another query language here. The plan is to fix the nepomuk agent and use that as semi-public interface for now.
TO DO	Nepomuk integration	Generic Item tag/rate/comment, etc.	<Tom>
TO DO	Sync collection tree after creating setting up a resource	see AgentInstanceCreateJob
TO DO	Support standard commands for QUndo framework
TO DO	Conflict detection in resources	See Osnabrueck meeting notes for details
IN PROGRESS	Action framework	see below
IN PROGRESS	Fix API docs	The libakonadi move as well as the huge API changes following it broke lots of the docs technical and content-wise, see below
IN PROGRESS	Migration	Data and settings from pre-Akonadi times, see below
IN PROGRESS	Extended notifications	Item change notification do not yet include their source collections (real and virtual)
TO DO	Alternative for Akonadi::ResourceBase	Not using the scheduler to avoid the serialization of operations, see RSS resource. (This will get very complicated. Maybe use a proxy ResourceBase for this, which is thread-pooled?)

Mail specific extensions

Status	Item	Description	Contact
TO DO	Share mail flag code	Standard actions, standard flag enum/constants, Nepomuk interaction

Event/Todo/Journal specific extensions

Status	Item	Description	Contact
TO DO	Todo proxy model	See KOrganizers To-Do view	<Bruno?>
DONE	Subtype identification	See discussion on kde-pim mailinglist
IN PROGRESS	Agenda view	KOrganizer agenda view based on Akonadi
TO DO	Month view	KOrganizer month view based on Akonadi	<Bruno?>
TO DO	Timeline view	KOrganizer timeline view based on Akonadi

Resources, Agents and others

Status	Item	Description	Contact
DONE	KResource Akonadi bridge	for applications using KCal or KABC
DONE	Akonadi KResource bridge	for data accessed through KCal or KABC resources
TO DO	Expire Agent
DONE	MBOX Resource
DONE	Extend IMAP Resource
IN PROGRESS	POP3 Resource
IN PROGRESS	RSS Resource	in akregator_port branch (Details)
IN PROGRESS	Filter Agent
TO DO	Search
TO DO	History resource
IN PROGRESS	Filter Rule GUI	Used by filters and searches