[Kolab-devel] RFC next kolab server version 2.3 and 2.2.1?

[Richard Bos]

Hi,

I would like to discuss the version of the soon(?) to be released kolab 
server.  At the moment one find on the roadmap page the following 
information:

"Release 2.2.1 is envisioned for Q4 2008 or earlier. It will have at least one 
release candidate before that. Planned improvements include adding the SyncML 
improvements to Horde."

AFAIK 2.2.1 is the only known version that is being worked on, but with the 
many changes that have been made to kolab I believe that a version like 2.2.1 
is misleading.  A minor version upgrades means in most cases (for the other 
OSS projects) that the upgrade contains only bug fixes.  But looking at 
kolab's current ChangeLog, much more has changed and some changes have a big 
impact.  With this mind I would like to mentioned the removal of the packages 
kolab-filter and kolab-freebusy from kolab cvs.  This means that packages 
will get totally different names (something horde-freebusy and filter, it 
will be I think).  Newpackage files have to be made by packagers for the next 
kolab version.  Further more files have been moved from kolabd to perl-kolab.
Big changes have been made to horde.  Horde will be delivered as I believe 1 
big application instead of many seperate applications.  These are only a few 
of the many more changes that were made, and that were not bugs.

Because of the reasons above I believe that it is justified to call the next 
kolab server release 2.3 and not 2.2.1.  What's your opinion about this?

-- 
Richard Bos
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It is not inherited from our parents.