[horde] Status Horde 5.3/6.0, official PHP7 Support, EAS 16

[Grouchy Sysadmin]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Torben Dannhauer <torben at dannhauer.info>:
>
>>> Quoting Torben Dannhauer <torben at dannhauer.info>:
>>>
>>>> Dear Horde Devs,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> First of all I would like to thank you for your dedication to the
>>>> horde project in the last year - your project is a great piece of
>> software!
>>>>
>>>> Since this year is soon over, I would like to take the chance to get
>>>> an update of the current status.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Some month ago, there was a discussion on the list how to go on with
>>>> Horde, wait until everything is done for Horde 6 or if it should be
>>>> released as Horde 5.3
>>>>
>>>> What is the current status in this decision?
>>>
>>> Since the loss of the Basic view is too much for a point release, I
>>> think what we are leaning towards is releasing what we currently have
>>> as Horde 6, without any of the major BC-breaking refactoring we had
>>> planned for H6.
>>>
>>> IIRC, we need to still talk about what this would look like from a
>>> repository stand-point since we would now need maintain 2 stable
>>> branches, along with master. Horde 6 was planned to be released after
>>> we split the repository into individual repos for each component. I'm
>>> torn as to how I feel about this. One the one hand it gets new
>>> features out quicker, which absolutely has to happen, but it means
>>> delaying a bunch of BC breaking things and slowing future progress.
>>>
>>>
>>>> What type of work needs to be
>>>> done to get the release out. How can the community contributer to
>>>> speed up things?
>>>
>>> Jan and I need to go over this and see exactly what needs to be done
>>> to get the alpha releases rolling, and see what we can delegate out to
>>> our community supporters.
>>>
>>>> Additionally, PHP is moving more and more towards 7.0, so an official
>>>> support of the Horde project for PHP7 would be nice. I read in the
>>>> list that
>>>> PHP7 should basically work, also forcing packages to PHP7 is still
>> required.
>>>> I will test this out soon.
>>>
>>> I have an install running just this locally and, at least for my
>>> day-to-day use cases, works well - despite the WARNINGS that creep up
>>> in the logs.
>>>
>>>> What is required in detail to bring official PHP 7 support to all
>>>> packages to close this topic?
>>>
>>> I think while we can do what we can to increase PHP 7 support for the
>>> current release applications, we can never officially mark them as
>>> PHP7 - this will have to wait until H6.
>>>
>>> There are still some external libraries that we depend on that are not
>>> PHP 7 compatible. We will need to either find replacements for those
>>> libraries, or fork/refactor them under the Horde banner. This could be
>>> a non-trivial amount of work (not sure as I haven't personally looked
>>> at the code for these yet). The good news is that I believe we only
>>> have a few of these situations, like Text_Wiki in Wicked. We could
>>> always hold back the releases of these applications if needed in order
>>> to get the rest of the main groupware applications out.
>>>
>>>> As a last step: is EAS 16.0 finally implemented? What is a blocker to
>>>> release it (maybe even in the 5.2 series?)
>>>
>>> EAS 16.0 has been implemented for some time now, but requires both a
>>> client that supports it and our current git master code to make use of
>>> it. The current stable ActiveSync library supports it, but the
>>> 5.2 series of applications will not since it required significant
>>> additions/changes to the various application APIs.
>>>
>>>
>>>> What would it cost to implement EAS 16.1 [1] (including release as
>>>> official packages!)?
>>>
>>> I haven't looked at this, other than reading the generic description
>>> of things it's supposed to add. IIRC, it adds support for
>>> renegotiating meetings times and more atomic data wipes (so you could
>>> wipe just the exchange data and not the entire device, for example).
>>> For the former, this would mean that in addition to the ActiveSync
>>> changes needed, we would need to add support to Kronolith for iTip
>>> COUNTER/DECLINECOUNTER and SEQUENCE support [1]. Of course would also
>>> need a client that actually supports this to test.
>>>
>>> If we can get at least support in Kronolith and our iCalendar code for
>>> COUNTER/DECLINE etc...before Horde 6 then we could conceivably get
>>> this functionality in Horde 6.0 when the ActiveSync side of it is
>>> done. Otherwise, it would have to wait for 6.1/7.0.
>>>
>>>> Thanks again for all your input into the project!
>>>
>>> Thank YOU for all of your support :)
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/8396
>>>
>>>
>>>> Warm regards,
>>>>
>>>> Torben
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/exchangedev/2016/06/13/announcing-ex
>>>> change-
>>>> activesync-version-16-1/
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> The core apps all seem to work fine with PHP 7. I'm running IMP,
>> Turba, Ingo, Kronolith, Nag and Mnemo without issue.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> thanks for your status report! It seems the only failure is Wicked. Since I
>> use it internally for all documentation, it is a major point for me.
>>
>> Mike mentioned Text_Wiki - it seems it is unmaintained currently:
>> pear.php.net/package/Text_Wiki/.
>> Unfortunately my PHP knowledge is limited to basic skills, I think I'm not
>> competent enough to maintain that package. Does Wicked support a different
>> backend? Maybe there are nice PHP7 compatible and still maintained backends
>> available wicked could switch to?
>
> Wicked works just fine on PHP 7. You can safely ignore deprecation  
> or strict messages from PHP.
>
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> Jan Schneider
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Jan,

You beat me to it. I was just testing.

Torben,

I had to force install Text_Wiki_Mediawiki, Text_Wiki_Creole,  
Text_Wiki_Tiki, along with horde/wicked. It all appears to work,  
though my testing has been limited.

Tim