The document summarizes updates to the Zarafa development in 2012, including: 1) Expanded development teams with new offices in Ukraine and additions in India and Delft, and adopting Scrum methodology with 2-weekly releases. 2) Improvements to tracking tickets in JIRA and assessing tickets within 1 day with a focus on fixing bugs over features. 3) Increased platforms supported from 38 to including Windows, and reduced build time for all distributions from over 6 hours to under 1 hour. 4) Continued work on the WebApp, plugins, Z-Admin, integration with other services like Spreed, and contributions from an expanded international team.

1. Zarafa Development update 2012
Steve Hardy

2. More people
• Added office in
Charkov, Ukraine
• New additions to
WebApp team in
India, Delft

3. More releases
• Scrum
methodology
• 2-weekly
releases
• Each team has
Development
and QA
members

4. More ticket tracking
• Switched from Trac to
JIRA
• New tickets are
assessed and
scheduled within 1
working day
• New method has bias
towards fixing bugs
as opposed to
creating features

5. More sources
• Added external GIT
repo
• Updated from internal
svn, daily
git.zarafa.com

6. More platforms, but also more build speed
• 38 Distro’s + Windows
• Build time for *all* distributions brought down from over six hours to
under one hour
• Gives us quicker release capability
• ‘How to make your own zarafa-licensed’ available

7. More people working on WebApp
• Some core C++ development geared towards making development
of WebApp and Z-Push easier
– zarafa-contacts package which delivers Addressbook content from
contacts folders (However, not enabled yet in WebApp 1.1)
– php-ext extended with realtime notifications

8. More development outside the core
- Core developers worked on both traditional core components and
external tools
- 7.1 MAPI core mostly identical to 7.0
- Comparison of MAPI client/server communication capabilities:
- 5.00 introduced core ‘offline sync’ capability
- 6.10 introduced core ‘multitenancy features’
- 6.20 introduced core ‘session grouping’
- 6.30 introduced core ‘multiserver features’
- 6.40 introduced core ‘new threading model’ and ‘archive store’ features
- 7.0 introduced core ‘unicode’
- 7.1 introduced only minor ‘stream data from archive’ feature

9. More features
• New zarafa-search (replaces zarafa-indexer in 7.0 and earlier)
• New python plugin framework for dagent/spooler
• New multi-LDAP server support
• New zarafa-stats output
• New offline database engine (MySQL 5.5)
• New multithreaded zarafa-backup
• New support for RFC1891 delivery reports
• New multiserver reverse proxy support
• New priority queue for critical MAPI clients
• New LDAP paging support
• New post-MSR offline sync
• New MR autoresponder: instead of ‘direct booking’ (and allowing both methods in
WebApp/WebAccess)
• New auto-created archive stores (and including them in the view)
• New Outlook 2010 support
• New EWS (in progress)
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10. More features
• New zarafa-search (replaces zarafa-indexer in 7.0 and earlier)
• New python plugin framework for dagent/spooler
• New multi-LDAP server support
• New zarafa-stats output
• New offline database engine (MySQL 5.5)
• New multithreaded zarafa-backup
• New support for RFC1891 delivery reports
• New multiserver reverse proxy support
• New priority queue for critical MAPI clients
• New LDAP paging support
• New post-MSR offline sync
• New MR autoresponder: instead of ‘direct booking’ (and allowing both methods in
WebApp/WebAccess)
• New auto-created archive stores (and including them in the view)
• New Outlook 2010 support
• New EWS (in progress)
• New, well, entire WebApp.

11. More WebApp
• Core values
– Hugely pluggable
– Built on ExtJS
– Leverages JSON for
communication with
PHP backend
– High interaction level
– High response
performance

12. More WebApp 1.1
• Improved IE support
(mainly, IE9 now
supported without
compatibility mode)
• Plugin / widget
deployment methods
• Delegate settings
• Lots of fixes

13. More WebApp plugins
• Widgets
– Add them to your
WebApp today view,
or sidebar
• Plugins
– Add buttons
– Change behaviour
– Modify data
– Open windows
– Communicate with
other components

14. More Z-Admin 1.2
• WebApp support
• Undelete stores
• More WebAccess
options
• Support for Ubuntu
12.04
• Password changer for
users

15. More Integration
• Spreed
– Open a meeting
instantly
– Free service with up to
3 participants
– WebApp and
WebAccess plugins
• QNAP / Synology
packages
– Use your NAS as a
Zarafa server

16. A Huge team effort
• QA / Testing • External developers
– WebApp – Spreed
• Development – QNAP
– Delft (NL) – Synology
– India – RIM
– Ukraine
– Brasil • And everyone who
submitted tickets!