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On Saturday, 13. October 2007 19:27:05 Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 13:11 +0200, Gunnar Wrobel wrote: |
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> > The project has advanced far enough though that I feel it is a good |
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> > time point to declare this a real Gentoo project. |
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> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kolab/index.xml |
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> Umm... why? Why does a package need a project? Is this not just a |
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> mail server? |
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It's a full-blown collaboration/groupware server and it will likely need a |
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fair bit of coordination between different herds and maintainers as it |
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uses several major F/OSS components which (at least until recently) need |
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patches and integration changes to be usable with Kolab. |
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http://kolab.org/about-kolab-server.html |
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> I don't mean any offense. I just want to know. Why do we need to |
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> create a project, which should normally be reserved for wide-sweeping |
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> changes or things that require massive amounts of coordination? |
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Indeed. Having tried to use Kolab on Gentoo before, I assume it will be |
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the latter that makes a Kolab project reasonable. |
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Best regards, Wulf |
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