That is a great news ! I am excited about what is about to come. I'm available to run some tests with Aggregator and other things. Regards. On 19 February 2015 at 07:31, Bron Gondwana <brong@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [Sorry for the late delivery of this email, I've spoken a bit about this > on IRC already, and the first meeting is in less than 24 hours, but I've > been swamped by emergency other work.] > > Late last year a few of us formed a plan. A non-profit foundation > (incorporated in Canada because that's where our biggest sponsor is > based) and some real resources to take Cyrus from its current status as > a great project that's hard to manage and not well documented into a > well rounded product that can compete with other proprietary or free > solutions without needing a "Cyrus expert" on staff. > > I posted my giant wishlist/roadmap last year, and we will be picking the > highest value items from that list to release as Cyrus 3.0 this year. We > have resources. As well as Ken Murchison at CMU and myself at FastMail > who have been doing this a while, we two dedicated developers who will > be working entirely on this project (Anthony in Canada and Ellie in > Melbourne), and volunteers putting in whatever time they can as well. > I've also grabbed part-time commitments from a few of the FastMail staff > to help out. > > With these resources available, I propose a very aggressive timeline: > > March 1st: Cyrus 2.5 release. I'll cut a beta tomorrow, and then > another one next Friday. Get your testing on :) The goal is to be a > clean upgrade path from > 2.4, incorporating many of the fixes since then which were too invasive > to backport, but no surprises. > > (... every 2 weeks or so, a new 2.5 point release with bugfixes) > > May 1st: Cyrus 3.0 technology preview. I will present this at the Kolab > summit in The Hauge on the 2nd-3rd, with whatever is ready by this time. > > July 20th: Cyrus 3.0 release. We'll have Docker Images / Virtual > Machines / Packages for major operating systems/distributions, along > with the documentation to set up a working mail system. This will be > quite opinionated. Cyrus 3.0 will be quite opinionated. We'll probably > be discarding a ton of configuration options in exchange for simplicity > and reliability. > > And we won't stop there, but that's as far as I'm planning today. > > KICKOFF MEETING: > > We will hold our first meeting as the new Cyrus team at 10am Melbourne > time tomorrow, Friday 20th. Timezone info: > > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Cyrus+Kickoff+Meeting&iso=20150220T10&p1=152&ah=1 > or http://goo.gl/ryQToF > > Video/Audio chat via appearin: > > https://appear.in/cyrus > > Side channel will be the #cyrus IRC channel on Freenode: > > https://cyrusimap.org/mediawiki/index.php/Cyrus_IRC > > Minutes will be posted to the cyrus-devel mailing list: > > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cyrus-devel > > Everybody is welcome to join in, either via IRC or video. Please use a > headset and remain muted when you aren't speaking - and we may find that > we have most people turn off video depending on how everyone's bandwidth > goes. We find it works quite well with just audio. I will have a webcam > pointing at the big whiteboard in the FastMail boardroom, and use that for > note taking. There will be a scribe in IRC as well. > > It's not a big deal if you can't make it. I'm planning to do two > meetings per week, one on Tuesday and one on Friday Australian time > (Monday/Thursday for Europe/US) as well as setting aside a couple of > blocks of "office hours" when I am available for anyone who has > questions - either development or operational. > > I'm really excited about this new phase of Cyrus development, and I look > forward to working with everyone and doing great things! > > Cheers, > > Bron. > > -- > Bron Gondwana > brong@xxxxxxxxxxx ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
