Hi, > the ownCloud 8.0 alpha 1 release is done and ready. > > You find the download here: > http://download.owncloud.org/community/testing/owncloud-core-8.0.0alpha1.tar.bz2 >
tar of ownCloud 8 alpha doesn't contain 3rd party folder, installation fails. Greeting, Felix > It would be great if everyone could go over the wiki page and add the > features that where added in case something is missing. > https://github.com/owncloud/core/wiki/ownCloud-8-Features > > There are a few changes about the packaging. > > ownCloud is getting bigger and bigger with every release. The number of > features and also the pure code size is growing like crazy. This means that > it becomes more and more difficult to release and test and maintain one big > monolithic package. > > Additionally we have now more and more relatively independent 3rdparty apps > and developers who use the ownCloud server core as a platform to deliver > great features but are relatively independent from the core code and > developers. This is great and exactly as it should be. ownCloud can´t grow > anymore if everything has to be synchronized to do one big release. > > > Because of that we have to modularize a few thing starting with ownCloud 8.0. > > > ownCloud 8 will be a smaller release as ownCloud 7 and contain only the basic > file sync and share functionality. Apps like Contacts, Calendar, Bookmarks, > Documents and search_lucene will move to the AppStore and will no longer be > part of the tar/zip file that we release as ownCloud 8. Obviously they are > still very important core parts of ownCloud itself. But not everything will > be in one gigantic tar file. > The user experience is not a lot difficult than today because this apps can > be installed and activated with one click on the apps page exactly as today. > But this has the benefit that the maintainers of this apps can release and > push updates independently from the server releases. > This is exactly the same model as we already have for the News app, the music > app or others. This is working great. > > The workflows to release a new version of an app and to install and update it > as a user was already improved compared with 7 but a lot more work has to go > into that of course to make everything super smooth. > Additionally there will be some improvements to the AppStore processes. Most > importantly the cool new ocdev tool from Radiation to make pushing updates > more easily. > > There is another change for the ones who care about the ownCloud Enterprise > Edition. The Enterprise Edition will be no longer a completely separate > release. Instead in will be a set a additional apps and enhancements that can > be installed on top of the same server release. This makes the life of > everyone easier. > > So what are the next steps? > For January if would be great if everyone could concentrate on testing and > bugfixing ownCloud 8/master so that we have a great release in 4 weeks. > > The full release schedule is on the botton of this page: > https://github.com/owncloud/core/wiki/ownCloud-8-Features > > > Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed to this release in ownCloud in > general. This is the work of an awesome community. > > > Let me know if you have any questions. > > > Frank > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@owncloud.org > http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel --- Felix Böhm fe...@owncloud.com ownCloud GmbH - www.owncloud.com Your Data, Your Cloud, Your Way! ownCloud GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, Holger Dyroff, Frank Karlitschek Schloßäckerstrasse 26a, 90443 Nürnberg, HRB 28050 (AG Nürnberg)
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