3 posts tagged “roundcube”

After more than two years of development we're proud to announce the
first stable version of RoundCube Webmail. It's not as feature rich as
we'd like it to be but the released version is considered to run
stable for a productive environment. Thanks to our users we fixed many
bugs and added some nice new features since the first 0.1-alpha
version was published in 2005. So go ahead and upgrade your
installations now! Download the latest release from
http://roundcube.net/downloads

A more or less complete list of changes is available at
http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Changelog
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Quoted from Thomas Brüderli's email this morning.

Rejoice. Celebrate. But also let's move on and keep up the great work. :-)
Thanks again to everyone involved!

Edit: We are on digg. (Please digg!)

Here are some updates from my personal PHP-world from January of 2008.

Writing tests

Tests are hip, tests are cool. Lately everyone does it. So I looked at phpUnit and phpt. So far phpt wins for simplicity, though I am sure phpUnit has its use cases as well (and there is this awesome tool called phpUndercontrol puts all your tests, docs and CruiseControl into shiny graphs). But for now I am sticking to phpt to cover some packages with tests. For a dead-simple entry to the phpt-world, check this: http://qa.php.net/write-test.php

For starters I will write a test with phpt for Net_CheckIP2; and see how that works out.

I can haz article

I got published in this month's php|architect. Woohoo! I wrote an article about RoundCube (which by theway is the coolest webmail on the planet). Thanks again to Steph Fox from php|architect for the opportunity and her über-patience, ... and for correcting my name online.

(Surprisingly someone managed to put an Umlaut (ä) into my name but still screwed up on Till vs. Tim.)

RoundCube

In other RoundCube-related news - no, RoundCube is not dead. Development struggled a bit last year since the project's future seemed not so bright for a while but we made it past that and current ly work on merging my devel-vnext back branch into trunk. The steps are to apply patchsets from trunk; rc1 to rc2 and then rc2 to current trunk. What a load of work. Argh. :O I hope I can write up another post (as a status report) on Monday.

Writing documentation

Documentation is just as sexy as tests are. At least that's another trend. And that's good because some of PHP seems to move away from a PHP-script-kiddy-image to more thoroughly well-tested and well-documented applications (or packages for that matter). I also managed to write some docs for HTTP_Session2. Woohoo! Thanks to everyone who helped out.

Which reminds me that I need to roll a new release of HTTP_Session2 as well and include Thorsten Roehr's awesome additions. (Sorry for not getting to it earlier!) Also speaking of HTTP_Session2. I am currently using it to handle sessions on a small cluster (three servers) and we handle 4Mbit/s on average. It's working pretty well!

Along with HTTP_Session2 the Contact_Vcard_* packages are due for a new alpha.

Services_Plazes

During plazecamp (early January, 2008), I wrote an API wrapper for the plazes.com-REST-api. It's called Services_Plazes and a PEAR-style package and soon to be proposed (once I get those sexy docs and tests done). And someone's using it already.

That's all, kidz.

With open source, many times you get people asking a question about a problem which does not have anything to do with the project itself. So for example on RoundCube we always get people who have configuration issues and blame it on the webmailer.

Here is something else:

23:06 < DW> I know it does not really have anything to do with roundcube
23:06 < DW> but the fact is
23:06 < DW> this channel is the most active
23:06 < DW> when it comes to mail servers
23:07 < DW> so it indirectly has something to do with roundcube