New mailing list and online documentation

[Otto Marroquin]

Thank you Mads and apheleia-it, for taking the kolab challenge !

-----Original Message-----
From: Mads Petersen <petersen at apheleia-it.ch>
Reply-To: petersen at apheleia-it.ch
To: Lennart <lennart at ackermans.ch>
Cc: users at lists.kolab.org
Subject: Re: New mailing list and online documentation
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:54:02 +0100

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 PetersenCreator of chaosApheleia 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
> notlook like Apheleia IT (the company that now runs Kolab) is
> interestedin fixing this. Hence, it might be time to take matters in
> our ownhands.
> I have uploaded the latest git version of the documentation
> tokolab.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.
> Idon't have much time to contribute substantially, but I hope
> thatproviding these vital services can be a starting point. Please
> let meknow 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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