[horde] Roadmap for Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 4.0.x ?

[Brian Spraker]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
> To: horde at lists.horde.org
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 9:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [horde] Roadmap for Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 4.0.x ?
> 
> 
> Zitat von Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de>:
> 
>>  Am 12.10.11 15:54, schrieb Jan Schneider:
>>> 
>>>  Zitat von Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de>:
>>> 
>>>>  Hi,
>>>> 
>>>>  recently I thought about planing the upgrade from our 3.3 HGWE to 
> the
>>>>  most recent 4.0.x version.
>>>> 
>>>>  But may be I can wait some more if there is any release 
> appointement for
>>>>  the next version.
>>>> 
>>>>  So is there any roadmap or timetabel for the upcomming release 
> 4.0.x ?
>>> 
>>>  No, but why would you want to wait for the next release anyway?
>> 
>> 
>>  e.g.
>> 
>>  May be if an update will be in the near future (e.g. next month) and fix
>>  some more bugs or improve some functions I don't have to do a new
>>  downtime short after the first.
> 
> With the new PEAR based distribution methods, individual package  
> updates are released almost weekly, even inbetween official groupware  
> releases. There's not need to wait for anything.
> 
> Jan.
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If you already have Horde installed, I would HIGHLY recommend that you install the new version of horde into a different directory.  Then, copy your current horde database to a new database (such as horde-new).  When you then go through the install of the newest version of Horde, point to that new 'horde-new' database.

This way, you will be able to run both the old version and new versions simultaneously.  Of course, any contacts/calendars/history information will be stored in only one of the databases.  But, I jumped right in (luckily I made a database backup) and replaced my existing Horde with the new one - and found there to be problems with it - and some annoyances like the loading of the menu bar every time you clicked on something in Traditional view.

By making it separate, it will allow you to test and give the newer version a trial first to ensure you do want to upgrade.  I've decided that it wasn't worth the upgrade to me because of those issues.

Brian S.

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