New supporting systems for Kolab on Gentoo and updates
Finally all subsystems that will be used for the Kolab on Gentoo Groupware project are in place:
All systems are now clearly under the colors of my company which will provide a solid long-term background for this open source project.
If you wish to follow the progress of the project you should subscribe to one of the mailing lists. "Kolab-gentoo-feeds" bundles the information from all other subsystems and will be a high volume list. "Kolab-gentoo" is the general discussion lists while "Kolab-gentoo-announce" will be used for important announcements.
As you might guess: The presence of mailing lists also means that there is now a new "mailman-kolab" ebuild in the overlay that neatly integrates into the whole kolab environment. It is still experimental but if you wish to use it, you may enable the "mailman" use flag for kolabd and emerge "mailman-kolab". Follow the post-install instructions afterwards.
If you dislike mailing lists feel free to use the forum for questions. Any new topics in the forum will also be mapped into the "Kolab-gentoo-feeds" mailing list. In case you have questions concerning undocumented features you may post them into the documentation wiki and in case you identified a bug please submit it in the bug tracker.
The development process has been modified to provide a higher protection for users of the overlay. Experimental packages will now get masked and the different ebuild versions have a clearer separation now. It was also necessary to remove older packages that were marked "stable". It will take a while until the current packages will be marked stable though they are being run in production. Hopefully no major bugs will be discovered.
One remaining problem is the horde webmail: The initial fixes worked only partially and there are still a number of open bugs. These will hopefully be fixed soon. It will be necessary to switch to horde cvs to make the patch management feasible and less time consuming than it is now. So there is still hope for a fully functional webmail for Kolab on Gentoo.
And as a final note: I received Kolab CVS access which means that patches resulting from the Gentoo project will have a faster route into Kolab CVS. There are currently a number of fixes that I plan on integrating upstream once there is enough time.
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