New mailing list and online documentation

[Mads Petersen]

Hello Lennart, Hello all,

Thank you for your comments and your feedback. It is inspiring to see 
movement on the community, and that made me want to give a short 
overview of the situation - and perhaps a few words about the future as 
we see it.

After the 'kolaps' (see what I did there..) of Kolab Systems, Apheleia 
IT picked up the pieces, and are now working on developing Kolab forward 
into the new decade. We are working on implementing the new generation 
which we name 'Kolab 4', of which you will already be able to see the 
results in action. This new Kolab generation will eventually be the 
foundation of future Kolab on all the different levels that we do.

A short overview of the Apheleia activities:

Kolab; is where the fun happens. This is the latest and greatest. This 
is where new developments are done and R&D sometimes breaks everything - 
until it is corrected and everyone moves forward. All new features are 
developed here first, and is then pushed through QA towards the other 
levels. Any community provided contributions will happen here. All 
source is available on git.kolab.org.

Kolab Now; is the SaaS installation of Kolab, run and maintained by 
Apheleia staff on servers in Bern, Switzerland. The targets are, among 
others, to increase the awareness of Kolab among the internet 
population, to tweak and proof the usecases of the Kolab reference 
architecture, and to serve a group of users with special demands 
matching the Kolab strong points.

Kolab Now is running the new Kolab 4.

CyComm; is the quality assured version of Kolab that is installed and 
supported by the Apheleia staff. It is where the guarantees of updates 
with no surprise (good or bad) are valid, and it is where support 
subscriptions and SLAs are included. It was named to avoid the large 
confusion of 'Kolab', 'Kolab Now', 'Kolab Enterprise', 'Kolab Systems', 
'Kolab Community', 'MyKolab', 'Kolab You Name It', etc, etc. Although it 
is a pr subscription offering, it is all Free and Open Source software. 
All code is available on git.kolab.org, and that is how it should be.

git.kolab.org; is running a Phabricator front end, which unfortunately 
is end of life (Phabriator is..). We have been very busy with moving 
Kolab forward, and have had less time to think about the git front end 
tooling. One of our goals for this year is, to engage more with the 
community, and perhaps find a new and useful replacement for Phabricator 
(which, as mentioned, is end of life).

Facilitating the community; You will probably not see Apheleia staff 
take support questions on the mailing list anytime soon, but we do want 
to facilitate the community better than we have done lately. We do read 
the discussions and learn what we can from those.  Hence we are very 
happy for this mail, and for any of your ideas and input as to how we 
could improve the life of you as a community member. We will not make 
any promises (we are a small team) but symbiosis is the wave of the 
future.

I hope that this short overview contains useful information, and that we 
can find a way to collect rather than separate.

Sincerely

Mads Petersen
Creator of chaos
Apheleia IT AG


On 08.03.2022 15:07, Lennart wrote:
> Dear Kolab community,
> 
> Since a while ago the online docs have not been updated (T6055 [1])
> and the mailing list web site has been down (T6220 [2]). It does not
> look like Apheleia IT (the company that now runs Kolab) is interested
> in fixing this. Hence, it might be time to take matters in our own
> hands.
> 
> I have uploaded the latest git version of the documentation to
> kolab.dlnet.org/docs [3].
> 
> I started a new users mailing list that can be found here:
> kolab.dlnet.org/listserver [4].
> 
> Of course to revive the community much more would need to be done. I
> don't have much time to contribute substantially, but I hope that
> providing these vital services can be a starting point. Please let me
> know what you think.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Lennart
> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] https://git.kolab.org/T6055
> [2] https://git.kolab.org/T6220
> [3] http://kolab.dlnet.org/docs/
> [4] https://kolab.dlnet.org/listserver/
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