[Calypso] How may I help with calypso?

[Guido Günther]

Hi Petter,

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 11:24:26PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Hi.  I would like to improve calypso to a point where I can use the
> Debian package at home to fill my need for a private and shared
> calendard, and wonder how I can help to make this happen.

Great! I think the other people active on the list share the same goal!
Most of us focusing on the private part at the moment as far as I can
tell.

> I've volunteered to join the Alioth project, and would be happy to write
> test scripts and merge some of the patches floating around in git
> repositories, but wonder how to best assist with this.
> 
> So far the little response I got on this list was useful (thank you
> Guido), but none of my patches got any replies so far, and I wonder if
> sending patches to the list is the best way to help.

It just takes time to review. If nobody answers just ping again after a
couple of days.

> From old git commits in unofficial repos, I notice Guido did some
> protocol testing in 2014 caldav-testers.  Is it a goal to pass this test
> suite?  Some of the old changes are trivial, like this:

I do think it would be a great improvement if we would at least pass
some of the tests giving us some more test coveratge.

I started to add this as an autopkgtest but this never got finished.

> commit 760939bd0193a2624d42970a0254b4d91ce3bb67
> Author: Guido G<C3><BC>nther <agx at sigxcpu.org>
> Date:   Sun Mar 30 15:41:42 2014 +0200
> 
>     Return 404 when trying to delete a non existing item
>     
>     Found by caldav-testers CalDAV/delete.xml
> 
> diff --git a/calypso/__init__.py b/calypso/__init__.py
> index 06845ac..f99588a 100644
> --- a/calypso/__init__.py
> +++ b/calypso/__init__.py
> @@ -341,6 +341,10 @@ class CollectionHTTPHandler(server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
>                  self.send_header("Content-Type", "text/xml")
>                  self.end_headers()
>                  self.wfile.write(self._answer)
> +            elif not item:
> +                # Item does not exist
> +                self.send_calypso_response(client.NOT_FOUND, 0)
> +                self.end_headers()
>              else:
>                  # No item or ETag precondition not verified, do not delete item
>                  self.send_calypso_response(client.PRECONDITION_FAILED, 0)
> 
> Is there a reason this and simlar patches are not merged into the
> official repo yet, or is it just lack of time from the small group of
> commiters?  I would be happy to extract patches like that from various
> repos and post them to the list, if that would help get a new Debian
> package uploaded into Debian soon.

This is mostly a lack of time I guess. Digging out, cleaning up and
reviewing existing patches would help a lot. That's why we moved to
alioth in September.

Regarding this patch: I send it to the list in 2014 and got no repsonse
and then totally forgot about it. Will resend.

Cheers,
 -- Guido