[Kolab-devel] First Kolab release including Horde approaching

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Hi!

Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> writes:

> Hi!
>
> We are currently planning to release the next Kolab server beta
> (2.2-beta2) at the end of next week. This is the first Kolab server
> release that will include the Horde web groupware client.

This will be delayed by a week. While all Horde patches are available
now, we have access to the OpenPKG CVS system now. This allowed us to
shove some Kolab specific fixes and patches upstream in order to make
the release a little bit simpler (and unclutter Kolab CVS at the same
time ... though that is not visible in the ViewCVS frontend :).

But this also means that we need to update several packages now and we
still have to adapt some configurations.

>
> I'd like to ask anyone interested in getting this first release as
> stable as possible to pre-test the Horde installation if somehow
> possible.
>
> There are two things you can do in order to test Horde together with
> Kolab right now:
>
> 1) Install Kolab CVS
>
> We added a new installation script that allows you to quickly create a
> Kolab CVS development setup. All you need to do is grab an empty Linux
> box and run:
>
> wget "http://kolab.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs-kolab.cgi/*checkout*/server/cvs-kolab.sh?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain" -O cvs-kolab.sh
> chmod u+x cvs-kolab.sh
> ./cvs-kolab.sh -i -F -H
>
> This will take ages but should give you the latest CVS version... at
> least in theory. If there are problems with that we'd like
> to know :)
>
> If it works fine it should give you a preview of the beta2 version
> including the Horde client.
>
> 2) Install Horde in an external web server
>
> Horde is a complex web application. As such it will also consume some
> horse power of your server. Many people will probably prefer
> installing Horde on an external web server rather than directly
> integrating it on the main Kolab server.
>
> We also provide instruction (and an installer) for this option. The
> necessary instructions are here:
>
> http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kolab2_Installation_-_Horde

The installation instructions got updated with the final Horde patch
that I generated last week:

http://kolab.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs-kolab.cgi/server/patches/horde/HK-GW-framework_3.2_ALPHA-Share_caching.patch

I'd advise anyone that already installed Horde to also apply this
patch and activate share caching in Horde. It should make the response
time significantly quicker especially if you have many groupware
folders.

>
> And the installation script can be run like this:
>
> wget http://kolab.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs-kolab.cgi/*checkout*/server/horde/external-horde.sh
> sh external-horde.sh

This got also updated and automatically includes the patch mentioned
above.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> Please make sure you checked the necessary prerequisites for this on
> the wiki page.
>
>
> I just wrote/hacked this stuff so there are of course no guarantees,
> no safeguards and you can expext a bumpy ride if you test this. But it
> would certainly help in getting the best possible beta2 release. So
> thanks to anyone trying and reporting back.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gunnar
>
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