New Kontact e35 version in apt "testing"!

[John McMonagle]

Bernhard

Is enterprise35 testing what you recommend for etch?
Don't see an etch stable?

In http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/KDE_Kolab_Client  proko2 is recommended.
I suspect that is a bit dated??

Currently we use etch for production.

Am testing lenny's kontact with kolab seems to work Ok other than sieve 
can not connect :-(
Probably be summer before upgrading offices to lenny so hope that will 
be resolved before then.

Thanks for all the help

John


Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> a version of the KDE Kolab Client Enterprise35 for Debian GNU/Linux Etch
> got moved to  https://apt.intevation.de/dists/etch/testing/ .
> You will find there the typical components of a Debian package with sources.
> For those unfamiliar with Debian, this is a tarball with additional files
> and course some binaries build out of it which are only provided for ia32
> from us.
>
> All this can be a good starting point for rebuilding binaries for Lenny, other 
> platforms like ppc or to package for a different distribution like Ubuntu 
> oder UCS.
>
> Versions on "testing" come from "unstable".They have survived the internal 
> quality control and about one week of real usage. We believe they are ready 
> for production quality. As always with software, some issues are known.
>
> We encourage feedback about each current version from "testing"
> so it can be moved to "stable". Of course feedback from "unstable" is also 
> very valueable and you get the improvements and corrections faster.
>
> Background:
> The Kolab-Konsortium people developing and maintaining 
> this enterprise 35 (e35)  version use a build service mill
> to try to catch errors early: http://saegewerk.intevation.de/
> About once a week we identify a drop candiate, which gets picked from the mill
> and put up to "experimental". Now we do some internal quality control 
> which consists of a small basic test and a more intensive check of the part
> that have changed since the last test. If all is fine and this candiate is 
> better compared to the last, we will move it to "unstable".
>
> Our small basic test usually is a subset of  
> http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kontact_Test_Plan
>
> To find out what has changed between versions that you consider to install,
> consult the NewsLog between the drop candidate dates in question:
> http://websvn.kde.org/branches/kdepim/enterprise/kdepim/NewsLog.txt?view=log
>
> E35 is strictly for platforms where KDE 3.5 runs, e.g. GNU/Linux, BSD and 
> other Unix platforms. The next generation KDE runs on more platforms and its 
> Kolab Client is Enterprise4. In case you wonder: Yes, this is KDE Kontact 
> using its principal components like KMail, KOrganiser, KAddressbook and more,
> enterprise just means that we use a special branch to develop this more 
> conservatively.
>
> Best Regards,
> Bernhard
>
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