[Kolab-devel] Plans for Kolab 3.5 community release

[Cornelius Hald]

Thanks Timotheus for taking the lead :)

I'm running a multi-domain setup on CentOS-7 which would be the distro
I could test on.

Unfortunately it seems like Kolabsys developers don't use the mailing
list, so it is difficult for me to see where we are currently. Also I
find the split between bugzilla and phabrictor quite confusing...

So does anyone know the current state? Where is the best place to get
information about the work being done since 3.4?

There is a roadmap ticket for 3.5 in bugzilla, but it looks like none
of those issues have been resolved:

https://issues.kolab.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=4563&hide_resolved=1

As those aren't of particular interest to me, I personally don't mind
and hope that other things have been implemented instead :)


Thanks!
Conny


On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 08:20 +0100, Timotheus Pokorra wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am cross posting this to the users list as well, but please reply
> on
> the developers list for the technical discussion.
> 
> Most of us have been wondering what happened to the Kolab 3.5 release
> which was planned for August 2015. We got quite used to the half year
> release cycle...
> 
> Yesterday in IRC, there was a quick and good discussion with a number
> of people, and Jeroen (aka kanarip) stated that the community
> releases
> have not been an effort by Kolab Systems, but he did it in his own
> personal time as a member of the community.
> That was not clear to me up to this point. One reason might be that
> the release post only mentioned other people from the community with
> special thanks, but Jeroen was not mentioned.
> I thought the work of Jeroen was taken for granted because he did it
> in his time for Kolab Systems.
> In fact, he should have been mentioned as first to thank for a new
> release in the past years...
> Now that I think of it, sometimes it was Jeroen himself who wrote the
> release post, and yes it looks strange when you express gratitude to
> yourself...
> 
> So hereby I want to thank Jeroen for the hard work on the past
> releases, in the name of the community!
> 
> Fact is that Jeroen cannot participate in the release as much as in
> the past.
> He concentrates on working on continuous delivery and deployment
> rather than a release.
> 
> So I guess we as the community should start an effort to get Kolab
> Community Edition 3.5 ready for a release. We will still rely on
> Jeroen for tagging the upstream packages like libkolab, libkolabxml,
> libcalendaring, kolab-webadmin etc. We also will need his advice, and
> will also still be using the infrastructure (OBS) provided by Kolab
> Systems. (Thanks to Kolab Systems for that!)
> 
> I suggest we aim for a release of Kolab 3.5 for February 2015. That
> way we could get back to the half year release cycle.
> 
> I will post separate emails to the developers list about more
> technical details.
> 
> This will be a community effort.
> Each of us has other responsibilities and projects besides of Kolab
> as well.
> Please reply on the mailing lists what you think and how you can
> contribute! There is the packaging for various OS, testing, writing
> release notes, describing the upgrade path, updating the manual, and
> probably more.
> 
> Thanks,
>    Timotheus
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