Is this project still active at all?

[Kroesche, Tilman]

Hi all,

im using kolab for quite a while now. I recently updated it to debian 
10, without any bigger problems. Would be sad, if the kolab project just 
fades away.

Greetings

Tilman

Am 09.01.2021 um 01:17 schrieb Johannes Ranke:
> Am Samstag, 9. Januar 2021, 00:38:11 CET schrieb Thomas:
>> Hi Johannes,
>>
>> thanks for feedback. I was happy user too. But not now.
>> But I'm not blaming kolab at all. Maybe it is just my fault.
>>
>> I'm running Kolab 16 on CentOS 7.
> I am reading on ars technica that CentOS 7 will be supported alongside RHEL 7
> through 2024.
>
>> I have several attempts to upgrade to PHP 7.x. But unsuccessful.
> Maybe someone on this list can give a hint?
>
>> Always had some PHP errors (several) not able to resolve.
>> Also wanted to try to make fresh install of Kolab 16 on CentOS 8.
>> No way - no repositories.
>>
>> I just don't see now any way to upgrade.
> I can see why you want to upgrade, as PHP5 reached its end of life in 2018.
> Debian 8 (jessie) had its last PHP5 upload in June 2020
>
>    https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/php5
>
> Cheers,
>
> Johannes
>
>
>> Thomas
>>
>> On 1/9/21 12:21 AM, Johannes Ranke wrote:
>>> Hi Thomas, hi all,
>>>
>>> The subject line of this message just prompts me to state that I am a
>>> happy
>>> user of kolab using it on Debian 9 (stretch) which receives LTS support
>>> until June 30, 2022. I plan to keep using kolab to be able to be my own
>>> cloud provider.
>>>
>>> I cannot say anything about kolab-syncrotron as I never felt the urge to
>>> use it. But IMAP, CardDAV and CalDAV work nicely on my end, with KDE
>>> kontact K9- mail and davdroid as clients.
>>>
>>>> I'm preparing new server now and will be migrating (another reason I'm
>>>> still on PHP 5.4 :-///).
>>> I was a bit afraid to update from Debian 8 to Debian 9 two years ago, but
>>> I
>>> was more afraid of migration, so I gave it a try and was able to do it
>>> (documenting some necessary steps on this list). Did you consider
>>> upgrading
>>> instead of migrating to a fresh setup as well?
>>>
>>> Anyways, good luck!
>>>
>>> Johannes
>>>
>>>> I wanted to create bug report but didn't able to get to it and report
>>>> it. My bad. I know.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure if this information about kolab-syncrotron will help someone.
>>>> Maybe?
>>>>
>>>> All the best.
>>>> Thomas
>>>>
>>>> On 1/5/21 10:12 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 09:45:02PM +0200, Thomas wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> my experience. Installed few years ago and was happy with kolab. But as
>>>>>> years goes away, the community side is going away too.
>>>>>> - No support for CentOS 8 (after one year), no answers on mailing list.
>>>>>> - I have not been able to manage to switch to PHP 7 on CentOS 7, there
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> missing dependencies in rpm repository.
>>>>>> - Few months ago there was introduced new bug in new version of
>>>>>> kolab-synchroton. I cannot downgrade because there are no pervious
>>>>>> versions
>>>>>> in rpm repository. Still not new version with bug fix. Activesync not
>>>>>> usable. Had to switch all users to IMAP/CardDAV/CalDAV accounts.
>>>>> Out of interest.. which version of kolab-synchroton broke it for you?
>>>>>
>>>>> What are the problems/errors ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Pasi
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