Status of Kolab Community Edition?

[Geoff Nordli]

There is a lot of development still going on.

Is there a suggested on the best distribution to use with kolab?    
Alma, Rocky 9, Debian, Ubuntu?

thanks,

Geoff

On 2024-05-01 13:06, Lennart Ackermans wrote:
>
> 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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