Debian and Groupware

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:51:59PM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote:
> I've been trying to get some groupware packages to work on my home
> server, and so far I've met with zero success.  I'm using Debian
> testing, and followed the destructions for both kronolith (which is
> Horde based) and phpgroupware, and *neither* one works at all.  I'm sure
> I'm doing something wrong, or my system is set up funny (giggle) or
> something, but I am unsure what to try.  Has anyone set either of these
> packages up, and if they worked are their any gotchas I should know
> about?  Thanks.

<rant>

I gave up on PHPgroupware a few years ago, since although it looks
promising, the developers appear to be so incompetent that it will
probably never have a working release.

For example: They released a -rc1 relased following a beta.  Someone
found an obvious bug (as in there was a missing quote in the php code so
it didn't even parse correctly).  How this made it into the code base
without even minimal 'does it run' testing is beyond me.  It gets worse
though.  Someone tries it, finds the bug, reports it to the bug tracking
system, and a developer goes and fixes it in cvs in the development
branch.  Does he fix it in the rc branh for the next relase?  No of
course not.  So when they then go 'no more bugs reported, and all
reported bugs are closed' they release the code from the to be released
branch in cvs complete with every bug reported during the rc and beta as
far as I could tell.

That was it for me.  It is a pain to install, many features often don't
work fully, and the stupid syntax errors and off by one errors and other
simple bugs are just enough to drive you nuts.  No more phpgroupware for
me.

Maybe some day they will get some competent developers to help or at
least a person able to manage the releases and bugs so they can start
doing useful work.  I sure hope it happens since it does look promising.

</rant>

Lennart Sorensen
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