Thank you on the update. On the SME 9 development wiki page, the status is not changed from March 12, so this is really a good progress and news.
Sorry about that - things are happening quite fast and we need to update things.
You will see much more if you are on the dev list and the bug track. If you are not there, why not ?
There are jobs for one and all, and we need al the help we can get if you want to see v9 finished......
I have seen a lot of discussion what to include (horde, sogo, zarafa, egroupware, etc.) in the upcoming SME as mail groupware platform, and as I can see from the wiki, it is still horde 3. Any ideas/steps to move to horde version 5?
Current plan is to get SME up to the CentOS6 base and change as little as possible at present - that was what we agreed at the besieging of the year.
That does two things :
1. It's a relatively achievable target
2. It gives a 'longer lasting' and more up to date base to work on
For every extra package that we try to add or subtract, the development time multiplies massively and it with current levels of people actually working, v9 would never get as I am sure once we said 'we'll add this' then someone else will want that.
Better to stick to simple and manageable targets for now.
Where we go from v9 is in the hands of the people who do the work.......
This should give you a lot of the packages that will be installed by default - subject to updates from upstream (currently it is based on CentOS 6.3) :
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME9RPMListPut your suggestions on the Wish List here :
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_wishlistThis is where we are on the current Roadmap :
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME9.0_RoadmapIf I remember I believe that two major blockers to a Beta, but we may have another Alpha release before then. Again, follow the bugs and devs list.
Whilst I am here....
As I will say until I am blue in the face, if you want v9 then you have to support it. Either with cash, or work, or both
It will NOT get built by itself. Don't ask 'what will it do for me'. Ask 'what you can I do to help make it work'
Some simple sums to illustrate the problem :
There are something like 30,000 SME installs out there.
Quite a few people make quite a nice income from SME, and that is good. BUT.
If everyone contributed USD 1 per install per year we would have an income of USD 30,000 to enable us to do more work on SME. We are lucky if we raise USD 5,000 per year right now, and we don't even cover the costs of the server infrastructure. That means people are paying out of their own pockets to maintain SME. That HAS to change.
If everyone contributed one hour per install per year in work, we would have 30,000 man hours to play with. If they did one hour per month, you can imagine the results it would bring.....
The current number of people seriously developing it can probably be counted on two hands. They do not get paid for their work, and do it in their spare time. The number of testers is higher, but still probably only number in the tens, and possibly 100's
So you can work it out yourselves. If you want x, y or z then please help.
I hope we will post some things for you all to consider later this week - again, its all down to how much time we all have.
In the meantime, do like others have - install a VM and SME v9 and try bug hunting or verification.
The more people do the quicker it gets done.
If you aren't sure what to do the join in on IRC freenode #SME_Server, post on the lists, or write to me and ask how to help. You really don't need any skills, and we are keen to try and help those who want to learn.
B. Rgds
John
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