Announcing the Cyrus Foundation and development plans for 2015

[Fabio S. Schmidt]

That is a great news ! I am excited about what is about to come.

I'm available to run some tests with Aggregator and other things.

Regards.

On 19 February 2015 at 07:31, Bron Gondwana <brong at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> [Sorry for the late delivery of this email, I've spoken a bit about this
> on IRC already, and the first meeting is in less than 24 hours, but I've
> been swamped by emergency other work.]
>
> Late last year a few of us formed a plan.  A non-profit foundation
> (incorporated in Canada because that's where our biggest sponsor is
> based) and some real resources to take Cyrus from its current status as
> a great project that's hard to manage and not well documented into a
> well rounded product that can compete with other proprietary or free
> solutions without needing a "Cyrus expert" on staff.
>
> I posted my giant wishlist/roadmap last year, and we will be picking the
> highest value items from that list to release as Cyrus 3.0 this year. We
> have resources.  As well as Ken Murchison at CMU and myself at FastMail
> who have been doing this a while, we two dedicated developers who will
> be working entirely on this project (Anthony in Canada and Ellie in
> Melbourne), and volunteers putting in whatever time they can as well.
> I've also grabbed part-time commitments from a few of the FastMail staff
> to help out.
>
> With these resources available, I propose a very aggressive timeline:
>
> March 1st: Cyrus 2.5 release.  I'll cut a beta tomorrow, and then
> another one next Friday.  Get your testing on :)  The goal is to be a
> clean upgrade path from
> 2.4, incorporating many of the fixes since then which were too invasive
>   to backport, but no surprises.
>
> (... every 2 weeks or so, a new 2.5 point release with bugfixes)
>
> May 1st: Cyrus 3.0 technology preview.  I will present this at the Kolab
> summit in The Hauge on the 2nd-3rd, with whatever is ready by this time.
>
> July 20th: Cyrus 3.0 release.  We'll have Docker Images / Virtual
> Machines / Packages for major operating systems/distributions, along
> with the documentation to set up a working mail system.  This will be
> quite opinionated.  Cyrus 3.0 will be quite opinionated.  We'll probably
> be discarding a ton of configuration options in exchange for simplicity
> and reliability.
>
> And we won't stop there, but that's as far as I'm planning today.
>
> KICKOFF MEETING:
>
> We will hold our first meeting as the new Cyrus team at 10am Melbourne
> time tomorrow, Friday 20th.  Timezone info:
>
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Cyrus+Kickoff+Meeting&iso=20150220T10&p1=152&ah=1
> or http://goo.gl/ryQToF
>
> Video/Audio chat via appearin:
>
> https://appear.in/cyrus
>
> Side channel will be the #cyrus IRC channel on Freenode:
>
> https://cyrusimap.org/mediawiki/index.php/Cyrus_IRC
>
> Minutes will be posted to the cyrus-devel mailing list:
>
> https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cyrus-devel
>
> Everybody is welcome to join in, either via IRC or video.  Please use a
> headset and remain muted when you aren't speaking - and we may find that
> we have most people turn off video depending on how everyone's bandwidth
> goes.  We find it works quite well with just audio.  I will have a webcam
> pointing at the big whiteboard in the FastMail boardroom, and use that for
> note taking.  There will be a scribe in IRC as well.
>
> It's not a big deal if you can't make it.  I'm planning to do two
> meetings per week, one on Tuesday and one on Friday Australian time
> (Monday/Thursday for Europe/US) as well as setting aside a couple of
> blocks of "office hours" when I am available for anyone who has
> questions - either development or operational.
>
> I'm really excited about this new phase of Cyrus development, and I look
> forward to working with everyone and doing great things!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bron.
>
> --
>   Bron Gondwana
>   brong at fastmail.fm