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Originally Posted by mikelcu  Just noticed this, so I suppose it answers some things (like why the last checkin of ZimbraEvolution was in 03/07). It doesn't mention why you all decided to drop it though. |
Really? I thought that I made it pretty clear:
Lately, we've been involved in things like
Zimbra J2ME client,
Zimbra Desktop,
Zimbra 5.0, and
many other things we're working on.
We're just too busy. Plain and simple.
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Originally Posted by mikelcu Let's be serious here. While I think it's incredibly cool to have released the source code, without Zimbra's direct input maintaining the connector, it's basically a death sentence for the project... at the very least it's a hell of a lot harder for anyone outside of Zimbra to create and maintain something like this. |
What a doom and gloomy statement. A death sentence would have been to close this forum, and not pass the source/bugs to sourceforge.
We don't want to "kill" the project. We feel that the community has a chance to step up to the plate and manage a project. Just because we aren't leading doesn't mean that we don't want it to keep going.
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Originally Posted by mikelcu So... Why did you all drop it? Is it a lack of public interest in Evolution? Was it difficult or annoying to write Evo plugins? Is anyone at Zimbra intending to work on this unofficially perhaps? |
A challenge is something we've never turned away from. If we can write a j2me client, ZimbraMobile, Zimbra Desktop, we can write Evo plugins.
Does the # of users who actually use it weigh in? Sure. The effort that we put in to this project is best spent in other places.
Is someone @ Zimbra gonna work on it? If I knew that, it would be official
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Originally Posted by mikelcu Sorry if I sound gloomy, but the less attention OSS mail clients get, the less viable they are to replace their commercial competitor(s), which makes them get less attention, etc... it's a bit of a vicious circle. |
Yahoo/Zimbra give a ton to the Open Source Community. We hope that someone will come along and lead this project. If you don't want doom and gloom, do something to change it.