[Kolab-devel] kdepim-enterprise

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Monday 03 December 2007 14:32, Steve G wrote:
> OK, I'll ask the questions. I am using a version of kmail that seems to
> come from this tarball: kdepim-enterprise-svn20070926.tar.bz2.
>
> 1) Is this an officially supported release?

No, it says "svn" which means it was a development snapshot.
We do have some snapshots which we consider good for testing
which which some people use in production (as testing) and packagers
might want to pick up for the "test" builds, check
http://apt.intevation.de/dists/etch/unstable/source/

> 2) How much testing goes into a tarball like this before a release?

We did not release this tarball, it seems to have been a snapshot
quality control depends on the one who created it.

The ones that you can find in the mentioned "unstable" apt directory above 
have seen internal testing. This consists of testing towards the new feature
and a basic test that covers some core functionality. 

> 3) Did you make any kind of announcement that this was ready to be used by
> end users? 

No.

> 4) Is this release stable enough for a business to run on? 

I cannot say, it depends who created the snapshot 
and what promisses were made for it. Probably not.

> The reason I ask is kmail completely quit working for me upon installing
> it. It did something to the config files that reverting kmail to the last
> known good copy did not work either.

All versions of KDE applications will try to upgrade their configuration files 
to the latest version. So downgrading always can be a problem. Best is to keep 
a copy of the old .kde files before upgrading.

Note that with a backup (which all sane businesses will have), there should be 
no data loss. Just roll back to old .kde and old KMail.
If you want to try a newer version from enterprise35, 
try one that has seen internal testing as explained above.
(Be prepared, this currently is still beta.)

Bernhard


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