Hi folks, after some years, I’m having a look at the SOGo project again. After reading through the webpage and project documentation, I’ve a few questions in mind. It would be great if you could help me here:
1) From my understanding, SOGo packages meant for production use are - among others - distributed by sogo.nu, Debian (as part of their distribution) and mallcow. Do the packages on sogo.nu actually differ from those provided in Debian - Is there a different feature set? 2) Reading through the documentation, it says that SOGo provides ActiveSync connectivity. However, there appears to be a certain ambiguity. Active Sync is listed as a feature, but CalDav Synchronizer is listed for Outlook connectivity. C.f. https://www.sogo.nu/about.html: "SOGo particularly focuses on: (…) Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync“ vs. "Using the Outlook CalDav Synchronizer plugin, Microsoft Outlook users can fully share emails, calendars and contacts with other SOGo users.“ What’s point in focussing on ActiveSync but actually utilizing CalDav Synchronizer? 3) Studying the material on Thunderbird: a) The guide (https://www.sogo.nu/files/docs/SOGoMozillaThunderbirdConfigurationGuide.html#_mozilla_thunderbird) lists the Integrator and the Connector plugin for download, but only the connector plugin is offered for download at https://www.sogo.nu/download.html#/frontends. Where is the integrator plugin? b) The same guide explains that one needs to install Lightning. But from my understanding, Lightning is integrated into Thunderbird and the Plugin is removed. Is it still necessary to install lightning? 4) Project situation. Looking at the bug tracker at https://bugs.sogo.nu/view_all_bug_page.php?filter=6724fedeb0c67, 1455 bugs are open as of now. Some of the bugs appear to be few years old without receiving much attention. (e.g https://bugs.sogo.nu/view.php?id=6019) - others appear trivial such as having a different column type (https://bugs.sogo.nu/view.php?id=5656) The Github-page has some PRs open (e.g. https://github.com/Alinto/sogo/pull/349). About 4 PRs were merged this year. Hence, I’m wondering if the bug tracker and the GitHub-Page actually reflect the state of the project. Is Sogo driven by a community utilizing the bug tracker for coordination, or is the bug tracker solely a tool to communicate with Alinto that is not shepherded? Is there a thriving active contributor-community besides Alinto? It’d be great to get some input from you, folks. Thanks in advance, Jan
