Next Suse Kolab version?

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com>:

> On Thursday 01 July 2010 01:48:20 pm Richard Bos wrote:
>> Hello Carsten,
>>
>> Op donderdag 01 juli 2010 16:36:17 schreef Carsten Burghardt:
>> > I have seen that Kolab 2.2.4 has just been released but the packages
>> > in the repository from Suse are still from February. Am I missing
>> > something?
>>
>> You're not missing something.  Over the last months I've come to  
>> conclusion to
>> I'm no longer able to build and maintain the packages that make up  
>> Kolab.  It
>> is too much work and my current activities no longer allow me to  
>> spent so much
>> time on Kolab.  Perhaps someone else can pick up where I left, it is in the
>> build server, so it is easy to take over the project.  I'll  
>> continue to follow
>> the emaillist and as such I'm around for questions.
>>
>> Hopefully, Kolab will be packaged in future with the build service, so it is
>> available for many distributions including hopefully openSUSE.
>>
>> Sorry for the disappointing message.
>>
> Well, since the  Kolab folks will be moving to a build service and  
> away from the OpenPkg it should simplify the packaging for all the  
> distributions.

The actual path for this is still open and has not been decided yet.  
If we are really going to use a build service is something that is  
also still open.

> I still need to be convinced that the packages will work well on all  
> the distributions when built on one of the build services. I think  
> of this as getting the packages as close as possible, but I still  
> believe it would be best to convince some maintainers from the  
> distributions the package them natively. But I am open to be  
> convinced otherwise.

I'm at least certain that there will be a very clear migration path  
away from OpenPKG and we will ensure that this path is as safe as  
possible.

Cheers,

Gunnar

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