From now on, we will publish a weekly ownCloud community update. It pulls together activities from development mailing lists, blogs, coding work and everything else community members share with us. Tips are very much welcome! Ping Jos with your input. First, let’s catch up, starting in week 18 and finishing with week 19. You can read a report on the month of april here.
Development
What was going on in the code department last week? Note that what is below is not guaranteed to end up in a release! We might re-design things, defer to a later release to give it more testing or change the feature otherwise…
GSOC
First, let’s talk about Google Summer of Code! We are participating together with openSUSE again. Volkan Gezer has the honor of publishing the first GSOC blogpost on planet ownCloud, already about week two of his GSOC project. He is working on the music app, currently working on improving the playlist. If you want to know what he’s up to, read about his GSOC project on the google site and follow his blog.
He is not the only GSOC student on ownCloud: Raghu Nayyar will be working on rewriting the calendar application in AngularJS with the goal of improving extensibility and maintainability. His blog can be found here.
Core and Apps
- Activity app introduced optional email notifications and a new design!
- Work continued on the sharing overview page, which offers an overview of all the files you are sharing with others and others share with you
- More work on file sorting in the UI
- The seekable encrypted files feature got reviewed, waiting for more feedback
- There’s also progress on the external storage priorities pull request
- Merged a pull request to downscale images and improve performance
- Merged improvements to the overlays in the Documents app
- Work started on making it possible to disable sharing by some users Allow admin to set default expire date
- Work on server – server sharing
- Improvements on the new sidebar for the files app
There is a large number of pull requests open – everybody who has a bit of ownCloud development experience should considering helping to review them! It not only motivates those who created the code but it helps get these improvements into ownCloud… Find a list of open PR’s for core here. From the apps, the Calendar has 17 open PR’s, the desktop client has 7 and the repository with many other apps has 16 open pull requests.
Make a difference, get those numbers down and the code into ownCloud 7!
External apps
Looking at apps.owncloud.com, there is a bunch of apps with updates in the last weeks.
- The news app brings a security update
- Working2gether, a pseudo multiaccess-management feature for ownCloud that adds the ability to lock files on oC brings an updated translation and color selection in the admin panel.
- the unsharing tool adds the
- Dutch language
- The file move tool adds auto completion fixes
- The Usage Charts app has a new version with some bug fixes
- One Time Password Backend version 2.4.1 brings some minor bug fixes as well as small features
Client development
- iOS: improvements in download behavior (download clicked file instantly even when other downloads are happening in the background; starting downloads again after refreshing folders etc)
- desktop client: a improved tray menu is designed. The new ownCloud website is making quick progress, wait for the blog post!
Other ownCloud happenings
Week 19 was the week of LinuxTag Berlin, with a great ownCloud booth and booth workshops as well as a talk by Frank at the Re:Publica event. You can find a blog by Daniel here, a blog by Jos Poortvliet here and Frank’s voice here.
Indiegogo features a really cool fund raising effort: the Indie Box. Under the slogan “Let’s Bring Our Data Home”, this personal server features two network interfaces, intended to be the ‘first box in‘ from your broadband connection. It acts as router, firewall, network server and website. Coming with a power efficient Intel Atom CPU, 2 GB of ram and two hard disks in Raid 1, it keeps your data secure and can serve it in many ways. It supports a number of pre-installed apps, including of course our very ownCloud. Check it out, support them and order one if you can!
In other news, the latest ownCloud can now be had easily on OpenShift.
Last but not least, for those of you living in or close to Berlin, there will be a meetup this week: see meetup.com. For those in Münich, you can get ready for a meetup on June the 18th. In Stuttgart is the Benztown Ras-PI group but no meeting seems scheduled – perhaps you want to kick that off?
