Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2007 schrieb Ralf Becker:
> by chance I've seen this bug explaining why eGroupWare still sits in
> experimental. Is there a way to automatically subscribe me to these kind
> of bugs, so I or the eGroupWare project in general can react?

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> Some first comments on the issues you mentioned:

The list of issues I received from Carsten Wolff after he worked on upgrading 
some installations.  I cannot comment on the personally.

> - There is no migration path from the old LDAP addressbook to the new
>   one.
>
> The releasenotes (www.egroupware.org/wiki/releasenotes1.4) contain a
> link describing the changes in addressbook
> (www.egroupware.org/wiki/AddresbookAccountsConcept) which contains at
> the end a link describing how to Update an LDAP based addressbook
> (www.egroupware.org/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=phpbrain.uikb.view_arti
>cle&art_id=57).
>
> As LDAP is used by quite a small percentage of our users (with usually a
> high sysadmin skill level), we choose to not provide a more automatized
> procedure for the upgrade.
>
> There also a readme describing the new LDAP addressbook backend, linked
> right where you switch the addressbook from SQL to LDAP (also offering
> automatized export SQL --> LDAP):
> www.egroupware.org/egroupware/addressbook/doc/README
>
> - Addressbook ACLs change meaning without notice, meaning people won't
>   be able to read what they used to be able to.
>
> This might be an other documentation issue, as there are some reasons
> not to do an automatized conversion: it might not always do what's
> desired. The issues can be resolved easily by each user by moving the
> contacts he want to share into the appropriate group addressbook. We
> might have an automatic solution moving all non-private contacts which
> are available via a group-grant to other group-members, it the
> respective group addressbook. We choose not to do that automatic, as it
> might not always give you the expected result, eg. when you made a
> contact available to multiple groups, while other people made there
> contacts available to an other set of groups.
>
> There's been several mails on the lists describing in detail what to do:
> 3 clicks by each user or one line of SQL by the admin and the issue is
> fixed
>
> - Shared folders no longer work with Felamimail and Courier IMAP.
>
> Unfortunately the FMail developer abandoned the current FMail codebase
> and noone else fixed that bug so far, thought I'm not even sure there's
> a bug report for it in the projects bug tracker.
>
> - icalsrv is completely broken.
>
> Really. You are talking about 1.4.002? Many people reported it working
> better then ever (specially with Lightning/Sunbird) in 1.4.002. There
> was a bug with one of the other iCal clients with the content-type,
> which was fixed after 1.4.002 in svn and which will be included in the
> next maintainance release 1.4.003



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