Looking for new maintainer: ownCloud (Fedora / EPEL)

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 01:17:56AM +0200, Matěj Cepl wrote:
> On 2015-08-29, 21:27 GMT, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Hi, folks. So I've been maintaining ownCloud for the last little
> > while. Unfortunately I sat down today to try again and update the
> > package to the latest upstream (8.1.1), and somewhere in the second
> > hour of insanely stupid PHP autoloader code, I just snapped. I can't
> > take this crap any more.
> 
> Hi, Adam,
> 
> thank you very much for your effort! Whatever future holds, you 
> have made it possible to run ownCloud on RHEL with more or less 
> working setup. THANK YOU!
> 
> > I'm very sorry to folks who are using it, but I really can't deal with
> > the crap any more. If all you need is calendar/contact sync, there are
> > easier ways. Check out Radicale or something like it.
> 
> Of course, if Radicale works for you, gnu be with you and go for 
> it! That’s all what really matters. However, let me add a word 
> of warning for others, because it doesn’t have to work for 
> everybody:
> 
> * Radicale (https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale) is a tiny project 
> with a five and half substantial (more than 10 commits) 
> committers (the half is for "System User"), huge majority of 
> them (534, next in the order 26) by one commiter. There is 
> nothing wrong with a project like that, but it has some 
> consequences.
> 
> * Radicale does not and will not support full Ca*DAV specs and 
> it seems to be "works for me" level of support and there doesn't 
> seem to be much effort to fix issues which the maintainer is not 
> interested in.  So for example, Thunderbird/SOGO DOES NOT work 
> (creates a duplicate items in the addressbook and calendar) and 
> the issue seems to be open since 2013 
> (https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/issues/42).
> 
> Again, if it works for Adam (or anybody else) it is awesome, but 
> I would strongly discourage anybody who is not willing to invest 
> substntial amount of a sweat equity from packaging the package 
> for Fedora/EPEL.

Not entirely sure if you meant packaging radicale, but if that is the case,
radicale is already packaged in Fedora and epel 6 and 7.

Pierre