Re: [gentoo-dev] Kolab2/Gentoo project
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 00:05 +0200, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > On Saturday, 13. October 2007 19:27:05 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 13:11 +0200, Gunnar Wrobel wrote: > > > The project has advanced far enough though that I feel it is a good > > > time point to declare this a real Gentoo project. > > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kolab/index.xml > > Umm... why? Why does a package need a project? Is this not just a > > mail server? > > It's a full-blown collaboration/groupware server and it will likely need a > fair bit of coordination between different herds and maintainers as it > uses several major F/OSS components which (at least until recently) need > patches and integration changes to be usable with Kolab. > > http://kolab.org/about-kolab-server.html > > > I don't mean any offense. I just want to know. Why do we need to > > create a project, which should normally be reserved for wide-sweeping > > changes or things that require massive amounts of coordination? > > Indeed. Having tried to use Kolab on Gentoo before, I assume it will be > the latter that makes a Kolab project reasonable. Cool. In the future (this is to everyone), can we say this kind of information in the announcement message so we don't end up having to ask such questions? Thanks, -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] Kolab2/Gentoo project
On Saturday, 13. October 2007 19:27:05 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 13:11 +0200, Gunnar Wrobel wrote: > > The project has advanced far enough though that I feel it is a good > > time point to declare this a real Gentoo project. > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kolab/index.xml > Umm... why? Why does a package need a project? Is this not just a > mail server? It's a full-blown collaboration/groupware server and it will likely need a fair bit of coordination between different herds and maintainers as it uses several major F/OSS components which (at least until recently) need patches and integration changes to be usable with Kolab. http://kolab.org/about-kolab-server.html > I don't mean any offense. I just want to know. Why do we need to > create a project, which should normally be reserved for wide-sweeping > changes or things that require massive amounts of coordination? Indeed. Having tried to use Kolab on Gentoo before, I assume it will be the latter that makes a Kolab project reasonable. Best regards, Wulf signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-dev] Kolab2/Gentoo project
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 13:11 +0200, Gunnar Wrobel wrote: > The project has advanced far enough though that I feel it is a good > time point to declare this a real Gentoo project. > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kolab/index.xml Umm... why? Why does a package need a project? Is this not just a mail server? I don't mean any offense. I just want to know. Why do we need to create a project, which should normally be reserved for wide-sweeping changes or things that require massive amounts of coordination? Why is this not just a part of the net-mail herd? It *is* a mail system, is it not? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-dev] Kolab2/Gentoo project
Hi! Kolab (http://www.kolab.org) is an IMAP based groupware server that works with a variety of clients. The server is usually deployed on the OpenPKG distribution which allows to preconfigure the complex combination of postfix, cyrus imap, openldap, amavisd etc. This significantly reduces the effort for the system administrator to get the groupware server up and running. I have been working on integrating this groupware server natively into Gentoo for two years now. The "kolab2" overlay provides the native server version since about one and a half years. There is still a lot of work necessary to get the upstream code into shape so that it has the necessary quality to package it in a sane way for portage. I'm working on that. The project has advanced far enough though that I feel it is a good time point to declare this a real Gentoo project. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kolab/index.xml A first target of the project will be the integration of Kolab specific patches into the packages "net-libs/c-client", "dev-lang/php" as well as "net-mail/cyrus-imapd". I know there are other developers (and probably many users) interested in the Kolab server project and I'd be glad if people join the effort. Cheers, Gunnar -- Gunnar WrobelGentoo Developer __C_o_n_t_a_c_t__ Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.gunnarwrobel.de IRC: #gentoo-web at freenode.org _ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
