Re: Is this project still active at all?

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
> >> 
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