[dev] Current status of Kolab backend

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de>:

> Hi all,
>
> I have played with Horde 5 and a Kolab2 backend now for a while. My  
> overall impression is that it works quite well.
>
> But after three weeks of using it for my mail account (not for my  
> customers, yet), I must also say that there are several issues that  
> are not working.
>
> 1.
> The Kolab authentication backend has been changed from IMAP to LDAP  
> some time ago. In Horde3, LDAP was used as auth backend, and with  
> LDAP as backend it is possible to list users and groups. This  
> listing of users and groups is essential to the Horde internal ACL  
> system (enabling certain Horde features for certain groups, etc.).
>
> 2.
> Calendar sharing is broken. If I set my settings properly on the  
> Kolab storage folders (using cyradm or my Horde3 instance that runs  
> in parallel), then I can access other people's folders on the same  
> Kolab server. However, if I start playing with the ACLs (on a  
> Calendar share), then I loose all resource sharing ACLs on that  
> share. :-(
>
> 3.
> Is Kolab3 going to be supported? (/me will probably be the Debian  
> maintainer of the new Kolab packages in Debian). So the question is,  
> will it make sense to work on a Kolab3 integration with Horde inside  
> of Debian (or not)?

At some point, hopefully. At the moment only Kolab 2 is supported.

> 4.
> Is the Horde team open for Kolab relevant patches? Who has Git  
> commit access in Horde to commit those patches?

Absolutely. Upload patches to bugs.horde.org or create PRs on github.

> 5.
> Gunnar Wrobel did most of the Kolab storage backend work in Horde.  
> Someone on IRC mentioned, he is not working on Horde anymore. Are  
> there other upstream Horde devs that maintain (and improve) the  
> Kolab backend?

Maintain, yes, that would be me. Though I'm currently mostly working  
against a standard IMAP server just maintaining the Kolab data format.  
Improvements just happen when being sponsored at the moment.
-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
http://www.horde.org/