[horde] Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 6.0

[Jan Schneider]

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

> Hi Henning,
>
> Am 16.02.2021 um 09:32 schrieb Twilek:
>>  Hi Ralf,
>>
>> I think that this is a thing especially new horde users have to get
>> used to. There simply is almost no communication about horde
>> development and as far as I can look back there never has been. Don´t
>> get me wrong, I have been a horde user for a long time now and as long
>> as horde keeps up delivering high quality software which is not rushed
>> and buggy I will happily keep using it.
>> I have noticed that you are trying to change this and give more
>> frequent updates of what´s happening. Still I think that horde is
>> losing potential users and customers who think the project is dead (if
>> I were now searching for a groupware solution I probably would have
>> skipped horde because it looks abandonded from the outside, the
>> "latest" news on the web page is from 2017). If you look at a project
>> like nextcloud which will have a big press release if they change
>> three pixels in their logo you always know what´s going on.
>> Maybe a little more updates especially on the web page (like once a
>> month or so) would in the end generate more revenue.  That´s just my
>> two cents.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Henning
>>
> Writing updates on horde development is really something I should make a
> habit of, at least as long as nobody else does.
>
> Matters are complicated by the fact that I entertain a complete fork of
> horde's master branch, all the time importing the latest changes on the
> actual horde repository, developing code in multiple libraries or
> applications in parallel to tackle a common underlying problem or
> feature, building and testing enhancements and communicating back
> changes into horde proper. Then they need to be reviewed by other core
> team members and they produce valuable feedback which I need to process.
> That's quite a different experience from being a fulltime
> owncloud/nextcloud developer, also from a time management perspective.
> But most of what I do would not belong onto Horde's website as it's
> neither part of released applications nor part of the current master branch.
>
> That said, I have written two articles short on the maintaina fork and
> its features, which are all intended to be features of horde itself.
>
> https://www.ralf-lang.de/2021/03/17/whats-new-in-maintaina-horde-status-3-2021/
>
> I will follow up with a mini series on the turba addressbook app in the
> next days. I've analysed it to understand how I can leverage vCard 4
> support (from the iCalendar library) and SabreDAV's improvements in ACL
> management to improve Turba's addressbook sync.
> There's some fields you can save in turba or in your mobile but which do
> not get synced (or even get lost on sync). There's contact group sync in
> vCard 4, but it's not yet implemented in turba. One topic at a time...

We should update your blog subscription on planet.horde.org though, so  
that your articles show up on Horde's home page.

-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
https://www.horde.org/