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

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Alain Spineux <aspineux at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> wrote:
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> Quoting Richard Bos <ml at radoeka.nl>:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> There are indeed many packaging changes. And I understand that this affects
>> all people porting Kolab to other distros as some packages need to be
>> cleaned up.
>>
>> But lets be honest: In terms of functionality there are not that many
>> changes. Most of this is really just cleanup. The biggest part of converting
>> the old code structures into something that is maintainable - at least in my
>> eyes :) - is just structure and not content.
>>
>> So even if I'm playing around wildly in both Kolab and Horde CVS there will
>> be no big "wow" with Kolab-Server-2.2.1 and I think it makes sense calling
>> it 2.2.1 :)
>
> Other questions to take care of :
>
> - How the data format has changed ?

No changes.

> - How the interface/usage as changed ?

No changes, with the exception of the Kolab web client (based on  
Horde). But in a way the web client is just another Kolab client and I  
don't see a strong relation to the Kolab-Server version number.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> Regards
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Gunnar
>>>
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>>> Richard Bos
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>>
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