[horde] Upgrade to Horde4, or stay with 3?

Martin Hochreiter linuxbox at wavenet.at
Tue May 10 13:53:14 UTC 2011


Am 2011-05-10 12:46, schrieb Simon Wilson:
> Hi all... I have been watching with interest the posts from people 
> upgrading to H4 and am keen to do so, with some good functionality and 
> improvements that will make several things easier for my family setup...
>
> BUT there are a couple of things that I am hesitant about.
>
> I have a full function H3 setup, with just about every app installed 
> and in use. We use LDAP backend with LDAP Turba address books, Trean 
> bookmarks, Kronolith, Nag, Ingo, Forums, even Ansel for family pics. I 
> use Whups for logging issues, and Wicked for comments in Ansel... I 
> use Passwd connected back into LDAP to enable single point password 
> management of my Unix backend.
>
> I use LDAP Groups to manage security to limit access to applications - 
> I have some users who only have photo gallery access for example, and 
> who I don't want to have access to the email system.
>
> Whilst I like the look of the new H4 suite, I am also conscious that 
> the current setup a) works; and b) does most of what I need. But the 
> ability to sync contacts to the family's iPhones would be a godsend!
>
> So I am after some advice - am I going to just break everything if I 
> try and upgrade? Will Passwd still work? Or am I going to need to 
> spend weeks redoing everything? Will the old H3 vintage apps not work 
> at all? How will I manage Groups / Users security?
>
> If anyone can provide some advice that would be appreciated. Am I 
> better off setting up a new parallel install, or upgrading the old one?
>
> Thanks
> Simon.
To complete Simons statement - passwd does not work stable in H4 at the 
moment
(i tested the git version too ...)

regards
Martin


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