a few questions ( repost )

[Corey]

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Were my questions unworthy of response, or are folks just too busy to reply?

Would my post have been better suited in kolab-devel?

thanks:

On Tuesday 27 July 2004 06:28 pm, Corey wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm new to the list, and have done some general browsing around on the
> kolab.org and kroupware.org pages - and I have a few questions.
>
> For one, I'm a little confused concerning the differentiation/split between
> the  "kolab" and the "kroupware" projects.  It was my impression that
> kroupware was the original commercial project which kolab sprang from, and
> that kroupware is now deprecated in lieu of the community kolab effort.
>
> However, the kolab pages keep redirecting to the kroupware site for
> documentation and downloads - both of which appear to be outdated. On the
> main kroupware.org page, it indicates that kolab 1.0.5 was the last and
> latest release, on Aug 16th... almost a year ago. Yet,
> http://kroupware.org/howto-kolab.html states:
> "You'll find the current (>=1.0.8) Kolab Server source releases at:
> www.erfrakon.de/projects/kolab/download/".  To confuse matters worse,
> the download link takes you to a directory listing, providing
> 'kolab-server-1.0' rather than 'kolab-server-1.0.x'. Drilling into the src
> dir, there's 4 different kolab rpms!  Then after perusing the mailing list
> archives, I get clued onto
> 'ftp.kolab.org/kolab/server/development/current/sources'... but of course
> there is no link or explanation regarding these sources anywhere that I can
> find on the kolab site... Not to mention the zfos site that apparently also
> has repackaged Kolab or something, heck I don't know - I only found out
> about that through the gentoo user forums... This is exasperating.
>
> So the problem I see here is a confusing lack of organization and cohesion
> - as a curious potential new user, I'm presented with many hurdles,
> redirection, and uncertainty. Is there something I'm missing, or is this
> truly an accurate assesment of kolab's current situation?
>
> Questions I noted while going through all this - hopefully someone could
> help me out and answer them:
>
> Why am I still being directed to the 'kroupware' site, when 'kolab' is the
> current community site?
>
> Which _is_ the correct latest, "bestest" source, and where do I get it?
>
> Which is the correct latest, "bestest" documentation, and where do I get
> it?
>
> Why doesn't the kolab community site host and provide the current
> documentation and sources -  in a more intuitive manner? Are there any
> plans to correct the situation? Is it merely a matter of a lack of
> man-power? Where can I help?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Corey

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