[Kolab-devel] New Horde web client finished

[Alain Spineux]

Congratulation to all developers and sponsors.


On 5/30/07, Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> wrote:
>
>
> Hi!
>
> As most of you know Horde has been an incomplete Kolab2 client for
> quite a while now. The development to convert the web client into a
> fully compatible Kolab2 client has been restarted last year and is
> about to reach its final stage.
>
> Last year p at rdus (http://www.pardus.de) started developing a new Horde
> driver for Kolab groupware folders. At the same time Thomas Jarosch
> from Intra2net (http://www.intra2net.de) developed a caching framework
> to boost the speed and usability to a reasonable level.
>
> The Kolab Konsortium (http://www.kolab-konsortium.de) decided to
> sponsor and accelerate the Horde development done by p at rdus at the
> beginning of this year and the new caching framework was sponsored by
> KONSEC (http://www.konsec.de) and WU Wien (http://www.wu-wien.ac.at).
>
> In the last two months we did join forces in order to integrate the
> improvements into Horde CVS. This has been an extremely successful
> cooperation and the new Kolab framework has now been committed to
> Horde CVS. We believe that this finally converts Horde into a fully
> compatible Kolab2 client. With these changes in place Horde/Kolab is
> now moving into a bug fixing phase in order to stabilize the Kolab
> specific code for the Horde 3.2 release which is to be expected soon.
>
> Development took place in a special Horde branch
> (http://projects.pardus.de/kolab/browser) which made it hard for
> others to follow the development. With this final CVS commit the Horde
> CVS system can be considered the ultimate point of reference again. So
> if you have bug fixes or wish to improve the Horde code, Horde CVS
> HEAD will be your friend.
>
> p at rdus did create the necessary packages for both OpenPKG and
> Gentoo. These packages are now based on CVS snapshots and provide some
> specific Kolab patches that have not yet or will not be included into
> Horde CVS. Once Horde 3.2 has been released Horde/Kolab will start to
> use reliable, released packages.
>
> In the meantime we encourage all people that do not run a production
> server and that are interested in hosting a Horde web client to join
> the bug hunting phase. In order to install Horde please consult the
> updated installation instructions in the Kolab wiki
> (http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kolab2_Installation_-_Horde).
>
> Please submit any problems you might have either to the Kolab bug
> tracker (https://www.intevation.de/roundup/kolab/) using the keyword
> "horde" or to the Kolab queue of the Horde bug tracker
> (http://bugs.horde.org/).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas and Gunnar
>
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