Is this project still active at all?

[Lennart]

Hello everyone,

I don't think the Kolab project is fading away, as there is quite some 
developer activity on https://git.kolab.org. I think the project would 
really benefit from a bigger community though. There are serious gaps in 
the documentation and there is little community support. I'd like to 
hear what the developers think about this issue.

About the PHP problem: Kolab works fine with PHP 7.3 on Debian 10. The 
Kolab PHP libraries in the CentOS 7 package are probably compiled 
against PHP 5, which is why upgrading PHP certainly breaks Kolab. You 
could, in theory, try getting the PHP libraries from the Debian package, 
or compile your own version. Personally, I would just stick with the 
package maintainer's choice for PHP 5. If CentOS still provides security 
updates for PHP 5 that would be fine with me (I have no idea if they do, 
to be clear).

Kind regards,

Lennart


On 10-01-2021 16:40, Kroesche, Tilman wrote:
> 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
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> users mailing list
>>>>> users at lists.kolab.org
>>>>> https://lists.kolab.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>
> _______________________________________________
> users mailing list
> users at lists.kolab.org
> https://lists.kolab.org/mailman/listinfo/users
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: OpenPGP_0xF332CAE1FDCB3AE3.asc
Type: application/pgp-keys
Size: 3082 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.kolab.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20210112/12913648/attachment.bin>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: OpenPGP_signature
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 665 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.kolab.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20210112/12913648/attachment.sig>