Follwing up on the idea of "Controling your own destiny..."
My suggestion for “Open Source” community is to start preparing for a “contingency plan”.
Zimbra is complex software, given the history of its development it’s not easy to code and maintain the “core” zimbra.
99.9999% of code (excluding the third party packages) has been written by zimbra employees only.
There has not been huge code submissions to zimbra by “Open Source” community but the community has defiantly give a lot of input to improve zimbra.
So in short we should do at least 2 things
1) Take as much as help of zimbra employees till they are there for us.
2) Create a solid wiki with details to even switching on the computer to finishing and compiling the oss zimbra version.
** I know there are few wiki articles and stuff about setting up dev environment but I am talking about
“Compiling/Maintaining Zimbra for Idiots” kind of proven tested steps, so more and more Admin’s can compile zimbra. This will give more power to zimbra admins and we will hope in future we (admins) will be able to contribute more towards the zimbra (i.e fix small bugs our self)
If we start now then we have whole zimbra team to help us put on the right track
ssssshhhhh don’t tell M$
Just my thoughts..i like to be prepared NOW then just talk about for next few months.
Raj