[Kolab-devel] Debian or Ubuntu repository

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Monday, June 20, 2011 06:24:54 pm Geoff Nordli wrote:
> >From: Christoph Wickert
> >Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 2:51 PM
> >Subject: Re: [Kolab-devel] Debian or Ubuntu repository
> >
> >On Monday 20 June 2011 21:00:10 Geoff Nordli wrote:
> >> Are there any plans to move to a Debian or Ubuntu repository to allow
> >> for installation via apt-get?
> >
> >Yes, at http://mirror.kolabsys.com/pub/debian/ but it is work in progress.
> >More to come soon.
> >
> >> The OpenPKG format works OK, but my goal is to automate the
> >> installations via Puppet and provide easier updates.
> >
> >So do we. OpenPKG is going to be phased out because it is no longer free
> >software.
> 
> That is great news, creating a binary repository will make it easier for
> the new people to get it running and hopefully increase mindshare.  I
> think Kolab has a lot of potential providing core groupware functionality
> to the SMB market.
> 
> BTW, what is the long-term goal on the client side?   It seems that Kontact
> E5 is the plan there, but it needs lots of work.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Geoff
> 
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 I agree with: < I think Kolab has a lot of potential providing core groupware 
functionality to the SMB market>

But it will certainly get wider usage if folks can get it natively installed 
(apt or rpm)  and for that, packaging and maintaining needs to become less 
bothersome. Otherwise more maintainers will give up. My predecessor gave up 
because of the work needed, there is nobody at SUSE anymore because of too 
much work needed to package it. Mageia's version doesn't work because of the 
smarty upgrade to version 3 very late and the kolab-webadmin isn't usable with 
it.

-- 
Thomas