Re: New mailing list and online documentation

Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:35:13 +0000

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Hi Johannes,

On  Mi 23 Mär 2022 09:35:05 CET, Johannes Ranke wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> IMHO, the Kolab software situation has gone into some non-ideal
>> direction regarded from a FLOSS advocate perspective.
>
> Are you referring to the things Lennart mentioned (ignored bug reports, lack
> of documentation updates, dysfunctional email list management)?

These are the symptoms of a product that is driven mainly by a company  
with lack of community management.

> Or is there more? What would be your suggestion to go forward - use  
> of simpler
> Open Source groupware systems?

The Kolab development ecosystem several years ago was a vibrant effort  
driven by a konsortium of companies and voluntary developers. The  
overall concept of Kolab (already at level v2) is good and promising.

However, Kolab currently is no community project anymore it seems.  
Things have become really silent around it, unfortunately.

Personally, I still run a Kolab v2 continuously forward ported to  
recent Debian distro versions. To differentiate between latest Kolab  
and my version, I have renamed it to "Skolab" [1] (as I tend to use it  
for school mail systems). Currently, I have a developer working on the  
fork with the goal of bump all components to 3rd party libraries and  
such as found in Debian 11. However, Skolab is a Kolab v2 fork, not  
using any achievement added to Kolab since 2012 (or so).

Mike

[1] https://github.com/Skolab-Groupware

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