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Tag: Maintaina

  • Sunsetting the Maintaina Horde Fork

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    A few years back I started a downstream fork of Horde to develop features I needed for foss and customer deployments without upstream dependencies. It went successful, was a great learning opportunity and a good exercise in critiquing our old tool chain and approaches. We had some well-known downstream users and contributors but I’d say…

  • Maintaina’s Horde 6 goes upstream

    Horde 6 alpha versions with composer 2 support are coming to the upstream repos and packagist.org composer create-project horde/bundle .