Roundcube Community Forum
News and Announcements => News & Announcements => Topic started by: SKaero on May 06, 2015, 01:16:00 PM
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What started with the hypothetical question, "how would we implement
Roundcube if we could start over again?" (https://roundcubeinbox.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/roundcube-next-if-we-would-start-over-again/), has now grown into a
concrete plan how to create the responsive, fast and beautiful
successor of Roundcube. It has become clear that the architectural
changes necessary for this are way too big to be applied to the
current Roundcube codebase without breaking the compatibility in a
major way. That's why we're planning to define Roundcube One as
feature complete and focus on a new core engine for the future
Roundcube webmail application.
In order to make than happen, we can reply on long time partners who
supported Roundcube already in the past. Kolab Systems has offered to
drive this project by contributing their well established software
development capabilities and dedicate additional developer power to
help us get the work done. In addition to that, the folks from Kolab
Digital in London are going to share their expertise on the UX and
design part of it.
Two major goals are important to us: Besides improving the core
technology and modernizing the UI, we also aim to move some of the
groupware features we currently see in the Kolab suite into Roundcube
itself and make them available for other backends. And we'll certainly
provide a migration path to existing Roundcube installations.
So to enable us to achieve these high stake goals together for
Roundcube Next we proudly announce our crowdfunding campaign at
Indiegogo. Go to https://roundcu.be/next (https://roundcu.be/next) and back us if you can or
help us spread the word about it. Your websites, blogs and social
media channels can help us reach more people. Or if you're working
for, or are a customer of, an ISP who's already using Roundcube,
please forward this campaign to your product manager.
Let's challenge today's email and create the most awesome webmail
application people deserve to communicate freely using systems and
services they can trust. The next Roundcube will of course again be
100% open source and made available to everybody. This is your chance
to contribute to the success of free software.
Many thanks to all of our past, current and future supporters!
Sincerely,
The Roundcube Dev Team
Source: http://lists.roundcube.net/pipermail/users/2015-May/010996.html
Help Support Roundcube Next: http://roundcube.net/next
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So, is Roundcube Next going to Fully Replace the Current Roundcube? Is that going to Launch with 1.3? 8)
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Eventually but no time soon.
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So 1.3 might be a Year or so down the road? 8)
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I would guess that it would be released as a 2.0 and most likely a year+ before its finished. Hopefully there be some alpha builds within ~6 months, but keep in mind that I'm just guessing.
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For 1.3 is says:
- Mobile/responsive skin
- Keyboard shortcuts for common actions
So, Mobile Responsive is going to Launch Before R C Next? 8)
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Maybe, but AFAIK no works been started on that.
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OK, well since Mobile Responsive is Vital these days, I've been Very Excited about R C Launching that! ;D
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Any news for Backstage Pass access?
Last message I got was on August 11
Kind regards,
Martijn
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I haven't heard anything yet, I saw there was some movement in the Kolab repos for Roundcube next so I think its being working on just not sure how quickly.
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Since Mobile Responsive has been the Norm for Over 2 Years, I Went Ahead and Made My Web Mail Service Responsive! 8)
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So, is it official yet that Roundcube Next is thoroughly dead (together with my backing of US100 ..)
It would be nice if at least the guy(s) behind it could have the decency of saying so and perhaps even give some rough account of where all those US100k raised went ?
Even if it failed there might be some good lessons learned so we at least can benefit from that?
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Not that I've heard. There was a breakdown of what happened posted on the Roundcube Next forum around 8 months ago but nothing since. It will be interesting to see if Roundcube Next ever does come about.
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Well, given that it was a year since the last official update and basically no real (apart from trivial git updates) progress ever I think it is quite safe to assume it's dead. They spent some money on professional graphic artists to do the images on what it should be and that is basically all that came out of it.
Even if they managed the 100K it is not nearly enough, not even close, if they tried to get developers to do it as a full time work and release it as a (semi-) commercial product.
I understand that project fails (probably 9 of 10 startups fail) that is not really my issue. But I get p**d when they don't even have the decency to say so and perhaps a short analyze on why it failed so we can learn for the next time.
Just "going into hiding" is really a cowardly thing to do especially since a lot of people gave the project financial backing.
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Well as I said there is a breakdown of what went wrong on the Roundcube Next forum. The question is if anything comes next.
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I finally found out that Rainloop is Responsive, Without needing extra template plugins!!! Currently No Emoticons Plugin or No Global Signature Feature, but Rainloop is Fast & Easy to Use!!! And the Admin Panel is User Friendly! When Funds Manifest, I currently plan to get Rainloop Premium! :D