[dev] Current status of Kolab backend

[Jan Schneider]

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

> Dear Jan,
>
> thanks for your reply.
>
> On  Mi 09 Okt 2013 09:14:19 CEST, Jan Schneider wrote:
>
>> Zitat von Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de>:
>
>>> 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.
>
> I have just looked at the Kolab backend in Roundcube that has been  
> provided by
> Kolab Systems. They actually use loads of Horde/Kolab code (forked,  
> gnaaaa...).
>
> So basically, I guess it would make sense joining efforts here.  
> Roundcube and Horde are the only two webmailers supporting Kolab as  
> a storage backend. I have tested Roundcube and can now compare it to  
> Horde (which I like better). So I will try to spend some time on  
> Horde upstream esp. working on the Kolab backend.

AFAIU Kolab 3 is just about using different file formats? At least  
from the developer's POV. In this case it should be relatively ease to  
extend Kolab_Format to support the new formats, especially since they  
rely on iCalendar/vCard IIRC, which we already support too.

>>> 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.
>
> Ack. I have already forked Horde on Github and will send in pull requests.
>
>>> 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.
>
> The Kolab data format (Horde/Kolab/Format/XML) e.g. is referenced by  
> the Roundcube libkolab plugin and required_once in that code. It  
> feels a bit of communication is needed so that we can get rid of su  
> much duplicated code (in roundcube-plugin-kolab). I will address  
> that issue to the Kolab maintainers.
>
> Mike


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Jan Schneider
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