The documentation week starts

This week will be a documentation week for tinymail. A normal XP iteration means meet, design, implement, document and test. I very often do the document part (mostly the API). I, however, never brought all that documentation together. There’s of course still a lot other things to document. For example making some sample code embedded in the documentation.

The API reference is updated and moved to its final location (this doesn’t mean that this is the final 1.0 API. It might still change until I actually do a 1.0 release). I have setup a trac website for tinymail and one for camel-lite-builder. These trac websites will function as the developers website for tinymail.

I discussed some ideas with Ivan Krstic about E-mail and the One Laptop Per Child project. The current idea is to make a local webserver that will serve webpages like, I guess, Roundcube does. But then much smaller in memory footprint. Which is why he’s interested in tinymail and its Python bindings. I will of course make sure that the tinymail framework can function perfectly in a web environment.

Christopher Blizzard then asked me to fill in this page on the OLPCWiki. It contains some information about tinymail on the OLPC laptop.

I hope people will help me this week with setting up all the wiki pages of the tinymail trac. Everybody is of course invited to improve things like the website (just wget -r it) or documentation or the trac infrastructure and its wiki pages. If you have an idea: please go ahead and edit it. I mean .. if I don’t like it, I can remove it right?

I also hope there’s going to be more people helping me with language bindings. Like improving the Python ones and implementing the .NET ones. The more of this stuff that I will have before making a first release, the better this first release will be. If somebody climbs the stage, I will definitely join him on this. If nobody does, it might be delayed until after my holiday: Tinne decided that I need a break next week.