Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Anouncement: eGroupWare fork of phpGroupWare

[Kevin Scott]

Does this mean you're not looking at bug reports on savannah anymore?

Ralf Becker (address@hidden) wrote*:
>
>Based on the recent events (you surely have followed on den lists) Lars
>Kneschke, Reiner Jung and I (Ralf Becker) decided to fork phpGroupWare.
>
>We are deeply displeased and frustrated about the way the project works
>at the moment and have articulated this several times. We learned from
>the list, that not everyone shares that opinion, which is there full
>right. As we cant change the existing phpGroupWare project, we think
>that fork is necessary to create the project we want to be part of.
>
>We want to create eGroupWare different from how phpGW is setup today:
>
>- more open development (wiki access, cvs access, ...)
>
>- active developers should steer the project and be encouraged to work
>(Pim Snel - the developer of iDots - is working on a document defining
>this more detailed / similar to the Debian social contract)
>
>- relaxed license handling (these GNU fanatics are really sucking), we
>want to have a LGPL'ed API which allows to import other tool-classes
>with free licenses without relicensing / editing them
>
>- we want to focus on a user friendly interface (java-script) and more
>on user demands
>
>- phpGW apps should be unchanged installable as long as possible
>
>- we want a HEAD branch, which allows to implement apps to run at least
>in the last stable release too (dont need to say, that this is important
>for sponsored / payed development)
>
>- big steps like the XSLT-templates should be developed in a separate
>branch and merged back, and not stop the other development for ages
>
>- we want 2-4 releases each year, with smaller improvement steps
>
>- we will monitor the phpGW development in separate branches and merge
>interesting developments (I just finished a bot, which automatically
>imports all phpGW commits in our repository for easy merging)
>
>- our first release will have the Version number 1.0 and will be
>released with the the announcement of the fork, probably on a big Linux
>Fair in Germany end of October 2003
>
>==> we want to have more fun with the development
>
>==> we want to make money with free software and sponsored development
>
>Some phpGroupWare developers already joined us, some are still
>evaluating the situation or waiting if the elections will have any
>impact (which I personally about).
>
> From my personal experience I can report, motivation and spirit in
>eGroupWare are really high and it's again a pleasure to code :-)
>
>Our best wishes for our old project phpGroupWare
>
>Ralf Becker
>Reiner Jung
>Lars Knechke
>Pim Snel
>
>http://www.eGroupWare.org for a demo or downloads (more to come)
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