[horde] Future of Horde

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>:

> On 23.06.2015 15:51, Michael J Rubinsky wrote:
>>
>> Quoting Martin Skjöldebrand <martin at skjoldebrand.eu>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Greetings from a new user and email admin.
>>> (Well I ran a sendmail server at the office many years ago but anyway...)
>>>
>>> I've set up a mail server using Postfix, Courier and Horde for the
>>> familly mail (moving away from a borked hosting mail and GMail). Of
>>> the webmail alternatives (SquirrelMail, Roundcube and Horde) the only
>>> one I got to work properly is Horde (Roundcube timed out when sending
>>> despite putting hours into configuration trouble shooting, Squirrel
>>> didn't officially time out but did send anything either) which sent
>>> mail on default installation.
>>>
>>> Looking at the community material some of it seems somewhat dated. I
>>> found a plan for Horde 6 mentioning CAlDAV for example which already
>>> is implemented in version 5 unless I am totally misunderstanding
>>> things. Which usually is very likely.
>>
>> The official roadmaps are at http://horde.org. You are probably looking
>> at http://www.horde.org/apps/webmail/roadmap which is kind of a
>> combination roadmap of all of the various Horde applications that go
>> into the Groupware bundle. The CalDAV items listed there are for
>> *client* support, along with some Dav support for Notes which doesn't
>> exist in the 5.* line. The CalDAV support in Horde 5 is *server* support
>> (so other clients can connect to Horde as a *Dav server).
>>
>>
>>> Also, the darling of the webmail world at the moment (apart from
>>> GMail) seems to be Roundcube.
>>
>> Oh, I don't know about that.... :)
>>
>>
>>> So, what is the status of Horde at this time? It all seems to work
>>> brilliantly for me at the moment.
>>
>> We are alive, well, and very active; Working hard and tirelessly towards
>> Horde 6.
>
> As a company who sponsor and actively use horde, we`re still very
> confident with the horde apps and library stack. My schedule is very
> challenging for the forseeable future though, so my personal commitment
> is a little unclear. I have automated RPM distribution packaging to the
> point where I only occassionally look at the public rolling repository
> if something goes wrong.
>
> https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/isv:B1-Systems:Horde5:rolling
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/isv:B1-Systems:Horde5:opensuse-appliance/groupware-image-13.2
>
>
> I will most likely delegate some upstream-involvement with patches and
> wishlist features to another person inside B1.
>
> Some time ago I heard about plans to provide an automated bootstrap for
> development environments, maybe based on docker or the likes - any WIP
> stuff to look at currently?

https://github.com/slusarz/horde-dev-vagrant is probably what comes  
nearest to that.

-- 
Jan Schneider
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