Sane ownCloud alternatives (was: Re: Looking for new maintainer: ownCloud (Fedora / EPEL))

[Neal Gompa]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Martin Kolman <mkolman at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 12:13 +0200, Matěj Cepl wrote:
> > On 2015-08-31, 07:05 GMT, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > OK, perhaps I was more afraid that many people will read Adam’s
> > email as “ownCloud is crap, Radicale rulez, let’s jump on that
> > wagon everybody!”. Radicale is a minefield, and if your path
> > happens to avoid the disaster than you may feel it works well.
> > However, one step from the safe path and you are doomed (e.g.,
> > using Thunderbird).
> That kinda reminds me - is there some sane ownClooud alternative or at
> least a project aiming to become one ?
>
> While a have seen various projects dubbed "ownCloud alternative" they
> usually just aim for a small part of what ownCloud does - for example
> Seafile seems to target file sync, sharing and file based collaboration
> and the Radicale project mentioned above does just address book
> syncing.
>
> So is there no sane "full ownCloud alternative" that integrates:
> * file sync
> * calendars
> * contacts
> * task lists
> * collaborative document editing
> * plugin/extension API (preferably with support for Python plugins ;-)
> )
> into one UI/account/framework ?
>
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Matěj
> >
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​As far as I know, ownCloud stands alone in offering the functionality it
does.​


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