Kolab on Gentoo: Horde progress IV

Since I am now being paid by the Kolab Konsortium to advance the Horde groupware web client integration with the Kolab groupware server Horde is really going to end up as a fully compatible Kolab client.

Initially I only planned fixing the most urgent structural problems but now the target is to enable Horde to even work with thousands of groupware objects (events, tasks etc.) at once so that the larger companies can actually use it without killing their Kolab server.

Luckily intra2net already implemented an IMAP caching system for the Horde::Kolab module that only needed to be restructured for the current Horde CVS version. This has been completed and now the Horde applications are being ported to the newer framework.

So far I did convert Mnemo (note management), Nag (tasks) and Thomas Jarosch from intra2net did Turba (addresses). So only Kronolith (events) remains to be converted.

There are still a number of fixes needed but when I use my Horde installation now I am already rather happy. The system reacts much quicker and I can have thousands of elements without problems.

Beyond that it is really, really nice being paid for open source development. I really hope that more and more applications will gain enough relevance in the business world so that this model becomes more and more common.

And finally a big thanks to all the users testing Horde at the moment. I know I am breaking a lot of stuff and half of the time it is not working at all but every little bit of input I get back from you helps improving the software. And I am really grateful for that.

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