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

[Dan Kuykendall]

Goodbye and thanks for all the fish.

I wish you Good luck with your project, but I hope your not expecting me 
to try and convince you not to leave. As far as Im concerned your team 
knows only how to be negative forces, but has shown little in how to 
positively run a project. Im not claiming to be a grand wizard at this, 
but regardless my statement is still valid.

Dan

Ralf Becker 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)