[MeeGo-dev] Some architecture changes (MSSF / Buteo / PIM storage)

[Adrien Bustany]

 On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 12:31:56 +0200, Vitaly Repin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 08 Mar 2011, ext Adrien Bustany wrote:
>
>> Synchronization is a solved problem, mind you, our mail for exchange
>> plugin does a pretty good job at saving contacts in a slow way. 
>> Using
>> APIs the right way, it could sync 500 contacts in 80 seconds, as
>> mentioned above.
>
> I am very sorry but I have to state the following items here:
>
> 1) Exchange implementation has taken into use ALL your and Contacts 
> team
> guidelines/directions to improve the contacts synchronization speed.
> 2) We are not aware of any "improper" API usage at this point of 
> time.
> 3) I would be really happy to hear the new suggestions from you or
> Contacts team to improve the situation. In form of bug reports, 
> coming
> to my desk in Ruoholahti, emails, phone calls. Anything!
>
> \begin{"take it personally" mode}
> - Exchange team was the first team which has shown the problem with
> Contacts sync speed. Yes, our guy, not somebody else, have filed
> that famous bug about the contacts speed.
> - The first response was - don't even expect the contacts speed to be 
> better
>   than we have now (and it was really slow that days. REALLY.)
> - We have spent a lot of energy / time to convince the teams in Nokia
> MeeGo to fix
>   their stuff, changed the way we used their APIs etc. The end result 
> -
>   the contacts sync. speed has improved a lot. Not only for us but 
> for
>   everybody.
> - And now we are getting the very "positive" feedback in public
> mailing list from
> our colleagues just because we are closed-sourced (thanks to the
> managers!) and
> the public could not check your words about crappy MfE.
> Well done! Blame these closed-sources suckers, they can't strike 
> back!
> \end{"take it personally" mode}

 I admit my way of putting it was blunt, and probably not exact. As you
 rightfully pointed out, you were the first to raise the speed issue, 
 heck,
 I think our save benchmark still uses some code of yours!

 What I meant to say was: currently, syncing 300 or so contacts from my 
 MFE
 account takes more than 80 seconds. So something can be improved 
 somewhere.
 I have been meaning to spend some time on looking into this, but 
 haven't
 done it so far. Maybe it is just the server that is slow, maybe we do 
 things
 wrong, maybe you can batch more contacts together... Who knows! And in 
 any
 case, we'll never be able to store 120k contacts in a reasonable time.

 And about the "we're closed source": I hardly see how I could hold your 
 team
 accountable for this, since this decision most likely belongs to Nokia 
 legal.

 Cheers

 Adrien