[Kolab-devel] Brain Dump of the Week: Ideas, Plans and Realities ...

Richard Bos ml at radoeka.nl
Wed Nov 18 23:09:08 CET 2009


Op woensdag 18 november 2009 10:52:54 schreef Sascha Wilde:
> Richard Bos <ml at radoeka.nl> writes:
> > Op dinsdag 17 november 2009 16:36:21 schreef Sascha Wilde:
> >> One thing we agreed upon is, that it would be nice to have all the
> >> sources in a none discriminating package format (can you say "tar"?)
> >> available, distributed and build able, so that one could easily build
> >> Kolab server without having the pre-requisite of OpenPKG -- Gunnar
> >> recently started a thread on this topic.
> >
> > See above.  The build service does not have an openpkg repository.  That
> > would have been nice.   I think that it is a bit hard to set up, besides
> > that it is not very known.
>
> I'm not sure how your comment relates to the paragraph above, I was
> talking on classical tar packaging, not OpenPKG -- or are you saying we
> would need the tars to use the build service?

The output of the build service are packages.  Those packages are build from 
tarbals.  So, yes you need tarbals to use the build service.



> > If the Horde project will not come up with a polished GUI, ain't it
> > possible that kolab project adds this to the Horde project?  That way
> > both projects benefit, isn't it?
>
> That would be exactly the thing to do!  I thought that was what I
> wrote... ;-)

Yes, that's what you wrote indeed.   I see it now after reading back that part 
:)


> >> The suggestion has been made to take the administrative (web admin)
> >> interface as a kind of playground to test out our capabilities of
> >> creating an modern, appealing and user friendly web UI.
> >
> > I have always thought of moving kolab-webadmin into horde as that
> > interface is nicer, prettier than kolab-webadmin....
>
> That's one possible strategy, which will be evaluated.

For the user this seems do-able anyway: as the user can use the web-admin for 
updating his / her vacation message and personal information.  Not too much.  
For the administrator it is much more work....


> >> In any case this will be one of the more exciting areas in midterm Kolab
> >> server development.  We are looking forward to your comments...
> >
> > I'm surprised that you're thinking of ditching horde.  Assuming that
> > Horde-4 delivers what we expect ;)
>
> Well, maybe you expect more than we do.  To make it completely clear: we
> are just thinking, and we allow our self to think even of drastic
> changes, as what we are longing for is a drastic improvement.  But no
> decision has been made yet.

You were clear ;)


-- 
Richard

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