Groupware in Debian

Name

in Debian (packages.d.o link)

Status, current issues

[http://trac.calendarserver.org/projects/calendarserver Apple Calendar Server]

(./) [http://packages.debian.org/calendarserver calendarserver]

{OK}

[http://www.bedework.org Bedework]

no

not packaged

[http://www.bongo-project.org ?BongoProject] (was: Hula)

no

alpha software; [http://www.bongo-project.org/Installation/Debian upstream debs]

[http://chandlerproject.org Chandler]

no

not packaged: [http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/DownloadChandlerDesktop upstream debs]

[http://www.citadel.org/ Citadel]

(./) [http://packages.debian.org/citadel citadel]

packages brand new, need to stabilize

[http://rscds.sourceforge.net DAViCal]

no

[http://rscds.sourceforge.net/installation.php Upstream debs]

[http://www.egroupware.org/ eGroupWare]

(./) [http://packages.debian.org/egroupware egroupware]

upstream development direction unclear

[http://www.horde.org/ Horde]

(./) [http://packages.debian.org/horde horde]

[http://www.kolab.org/ Kolab]

(./) [http://packages.debian.org/kolab kolab]

packaging of upcoming version 2.2 (see [:Kolab:wiki:Kolab]); upstream uses OpenPKG

[http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/ mod_caldav]

no

not packaged, single developer and requires patches to apache source

[http://www.opengroupware.org/ ?OpenGroupware.org]

no

[http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-ogo/ Alioth pkg-ogo] -- It's GPL; why is no one packaging? Previous packages [http://bugs.debian.org/285949 removed] (RoM). Apparently outdated [http://www.opengroupware.org/en/install/debian/index.html upstream packages] available. nobody is working on Debian packages!

[http://www.open-xchange.com/ Open-Xchange]

no

packaging being prepared, see ["Open-Xchange"]; lots of dependencies need to be prepared

[http://www.phpgroupware.org/ phpGroupWare]

(./) [http://packages.debian.org/phpgroupware phpgroupware]

Compatibility

Ice*

Kontact

Evolution

Web Interface

CalDAV protocol

(./)

N/A in KDE 3.5 or 4.0

(./)

no

GroupDAV protocol

It appears there has been some work 3 years ago, but it's discontinued. Alternatively there's a GPLv2 Add-on [http://www.inverse.ca/english/contributions/sogo_connector.html SOGo Connector] supporting GroupDAV contacts and freebusy info

(./) (calendars and addressbooks)

[http://svn.opengroupware.org/viewcvs/evolution-groupdav/?root=OGoProjects evolution-groupdav] plugin had no commits in 15 months. Fails to compile on sid. Old [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=310834 ITP] was closed a year ago.

SyncML protocol

(./) [http://sync4jmozilla.sourceforge.net Funambol Add-on]

(./) (kitchensync)

There's a commandline tool [http://www.estamos.de/projects/SyncML/index.html ?SyncEvolution]

Apple Calendar Server

(./) CalDAV

no

(./) CalDAV (Evolution has trouble authenticating. Debugging needed.)

no

Citadel

See GroupDAV protocol. IMAP/POP/SMTP work.

(./) See GroupDAV protocol; IMAP/POP/SMTP work.

See GroupDAV protocol. IMAP/POP/SMTP work.

(./)

DAViCal

(./) CalDAV

No CalDAV support in Kontact, but it actually works to some degree using the "remote file" KDE resource.

See CalDAV protocol. But Evolution fails to show events created by other clients.

only for administration

eGroupWare ([http://www.egroupware.org/sync see also here])

(./) GroupDAV, LDAP, iCal

(./) GroupDAV, LDAP, iCal

limited support

(./) main UI

Horde

only addresses via LDAP

only addresses via LDAP, calendar via Kolab

only addresses via LDAP

(./) main UI

Kolab

with kolabsync (not packaged)

(./)

no

(./) via Horde

Definition

Roughly, we consider groupware to include:

and integration between these components.

Other functionality such as chat or ticket systems are not considered on this page.

Meeting

There will be a groupware meeting: [:?GroupwareMeeting2008-04-25to27:wiki:?GroupwareMeeting2008-04-25to27]