[horde] Horde project status

[Michael Schlueter]

Am 06.04.23 um 21:33 schrieb Frank Lienhard:
>
>
> On 4/6/23 21:20, Simon B wrote:
>> On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 at 10:49, Stephan Lauffer <lauffer at ph-freiburg.de> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Zitat von Samuel Wolf <horde-dev at wolf-rtm.de>:
>>>
>>>>>> Hello. It seems everyone is in the same boat.
>>>>>> I needed to upgrade our e-mail system this year, thus I hope for 
>>>>>> HORDE to
>>>>>> have a stable release soon. Otherwise, my option seems to be 
>>>>>> limited to
>>>>>> SOGo groupware as I require ActiveSync support.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have not yet migrated, but it seems that Nextcloud (the groupware
>>>>> apps) also have ActiveSync.
>>>>
>>>> No ActiveSync, but it also use Horde library.
>>>> We using Horde since 15 years but can not wait longer, at the moment
>>>> there is no announcement/release plan. :-(
>>>>
>>>> Look like egroupware.org is an option, also based on the Horde 
>>>> library...
>>>
>>> We have a support contract with b1 systems and are using a pre6 alpha
>>> version maintained by them. Ralf Lang was working for b1 in the past
>>> and he is still active here.
>>>
>>> I hope b1 systems will be some more "verbose" on the mailinglists
>>> here. Maybe they can do some more, maybe they can fill the gap...
>>>
>>> There is development, there are patches, new features... just missing
>>> a big movment in the direction of a new v6 release (and there are
>>> still not that much improvments on the mobile view).
>>
>> The real question is what can we - as a community - do?
>>
>> git pull and fork?
>>
>> We offered to do crowd-funding almost 2 years ago and the LLC did not
>> respond to that idea.
>
> What about all of that? fork and d crowdfunding? Anyone here who has 
> the experience and time make it happen (like in a "leader" role?)
> I'm totally inexperienced with that, but it seems all important 
> questions are unanswered.
> Is someone here able to estimate to time needed to get this done?
> I looks a bit like it s getting close to impossible since php7 is like 
> a no-go zone soon..

A few days ago I did a fork of https://github.com/maintaina-com/imp and 
added some changes for the deprecate serialize usage. Now I'm waiting 
for a review of Ralf Lange:

https://github.com/maintaina-com/imp/pull/10


Maybe someone with more PHP experiences than me can also review the code 
an give me some feedback :-)