Status of Kolab Community Edition?

[Lennart Ackermans]

Hi everyone,

Development is certainly ongoing (see git.kolab.org 
<https://git.kolab.org/>). My impression is that the management of 
Apheleia (the company that now owns Kolab) has decided to not actively 
work on the community. I don't blame them, they can spend their money 
how they want to. They still make available all their packages to the 
community. I think Debian 11 should already work and Debian 12 is being 
worked on. (I don't know the status of other distros.) So the project is 
not dead, it's just that the community documentation is not being updated.

I do think that the situation has improved since a while ago. Developers 
engage with the community now on git.kolab.org <https://git.kolab.org/> 
(wasn't the case before).

If there's any hope for the documentation it has to be the community 
itself that revives it. I believe anyone can contribute to the 
documentation on git.kolab.org.  (I did manage to get something added to 
the docs a while ago.) Next time I'm updating my Debian installation I 
will consider addings some documentation. But I'm very limited on time 
(and I suspect most here are).

But really, things will only improve if we do it ourselves!

Best wishes,

Lennart


On 01-05-2024 19:01, Carpenter, Troy wrote:
> Another "me too" email.  My system is still on Centos 7.  I have never 
> found the time to resolve all the upgrade/migration issues to a new 
> OS.  I have been looking for a replacement groupware system, but 
> haven't really found one.  Mailcow looked promising, but me and my 
> users have gotten used to how Kolab works both via Roundcube and 
> mobile clients.
>
> Things seemed promising about a year ago when the new management 
> chimed in here on the future of Kolab, but then radio silence after that.
>
> Troy
>
> On 2024-05-01 11:50 AM, Eric Chaput wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm in a similar situation, and will soon need to upgrade from Debian 
>> 10 to 11.
>>
>> I tried a few times to ask questions on the IRC channel on Libera, on
>> which there are always a few users, but silence.
>>
>> Unfortuntely if I'm unable to upgrade I will have to migrate away from
>> Kolab Community ;(
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> On 2024-05-01 07:41, Reitelbach, Thomas wrote:
>>> Hallo list,
>>>
>>> I wonder if there is any development ongoing on Kolab Enterprise 
>>> and/or Kolab Community Edition. It's very quiet on the lists and I 
>>> have difficulties getting usable and reliable information on the web 
>>> regarding Kolab.
>>> Documentation for Kolab seems very outdated, it references Builds 
>>> for Operating systems that do not work at this time (Debian 10, 
>>> CentOS 7 and so on). The referenced mirrors in this documentation do 
>>> not work, referenced Package signatures (for example for debian) do 
>>> not work or the GPG Keys are simply missing and so on.
>>> The different projects on OBS seem all not usable, are missing 
>>> packages or have serveral failed packages.
>>>
>>> I found blog entries regarding installation on Alma Linux which 
>>> seems to be the current reference installation, but even this does 
>>> not work (installation works, but after setup-kolab it leaves an 
>>> unusable kolab installation, for example mailboxes for new users are 
>>> not beeing created.
>>> Or, if mailbox creation works somehow, roundcube users can only see 
>>> their mailbox but none of the additional folders, even if they are 
>>> existing on the imap store.
>>>
>>> So can someone please enlighten me if there is any work in progress 
>>> on the community edition at all? For me the project - as I see it 
>>> right now - looks dead. This would be very sad, as I'm a kolab users 
>>> since Kolab 2 and I really love it.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Thomas
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