[Kolab-devel] Fwd: RE: New Kolab Website Live

[Gunnar Wrobel]

"Georg C. F. Greve" <greve at kolabsys.com> schrieb:

>On Wednesday 29 February 2012 17.28:10 Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>> Has support for the OpenPKG based Kolab server been dropped?
>
>The upcoming deprecation has been announced in December 2009.
>
>It has been communicated repeatedly that it will be dropped after the
>2.3 
>series, and in December 2011 it has finally been declared deprecated,
>with an 
>offer to help anyone that wants to keep this running.
>

Ah. I was probably just a bit too busy in December to correctly grok the announcement. My fault. I'll have a look on how to switch to 2.4 then. And no, I have no interest in maintaining the OpenPKG variant :)

>
>> But right now the move seems somewhat sudden 
>
>Not sure I agree that a two year deprecation period qualifies as
>"sudden."
>
>
>> especially when I consider customer installations
>
>There are no more supported customer installations with Kolab Systems 
>involvement on the OpenPKG packages, so OpenPKG is a substantial cost
>factor 
>that is slowing down development for everyone, as explained in
>December.
>
>If partners want to transition their installations into supported
>native 
>installations with our support, we'll gladly provide our help for that.
>
>Naturally if companies are independently being paid to maintain OpenPKG
>
>installations, we'll gladly hand over the OpenPKG packing stream to
>them so 
>they can continue to maintain this path for as long as they want.
>
>And if people from the community seek to take this over, we'll gladly
>help 
>them in any way we can. So if you want to see it maintained, you're
>welcome to 
>take this over, Gunnar.
>
>And naturally we'll continue to support the community in moving their
>personal 
>servers over to native packaging with hints and advice as and when we
>can.
>
>If there are no volunteers to take this over, there may be one more
>release 
>with some security updates at some point before the 3.0 release, but
>that is 
>subject to availability of two weeks of Christoph's time, as that is
>the 
>experience of people both at Intevation and Kolab Systems as to how
>long such 
>a release takes, and that definitely woni't happen in March, I am
>afraid.
>
>My apologies for any inconvenience this causes people, but I hope you
>will 
>understand that OpenPKG has been a major cost factor for a while, and
>with the 
>current constellation there is a substantial cost to every single
>release for 
>us with no income to offset the cost.
>
>But, again: We'll gladly help those who want to make another OpenPKG
>release.
>
>Best regards,
>Georg
>
>
>-- 
>Georg C. F. Greve
>Chief Executive Officer
>
>Kolab Systems AG
>Zürich, Switzerland
>
>e: greve at kolabsys.com
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>
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