Rewrite Baikal to use use a modern PHP framework for its Admin interface.

[evert]

Made some more progress. This PR is a follow-up from #558

Phase 1

• Make user-list page work
• Creating users
• Updating users
• Deleting users
• Make addressbook configuration work
  • Create addressbooks
  • Update addressbooks
  • Delete addressbooks
• Make calendar configuration work
  • Create calendars
  • Update calendars
  • Delete calendars
• Automatically provision calendars/addressbooks when creating users
• Make configuration pages work
• Migrate installer to silex framework
• Make sure numbers on dashboard are no longer hardcoded.
• Require login for admin

Phase 2

• Global CSRF protection
• Delete code that's no longer used
• Create migration system for pre-silex configuration

[felixfkrull]

The numbers on dashboard are not hardcoded anymore, right?
So is there a check missing in the task list?

[bigretromike]

work done so far is impressive. hope all go fine !

[Rudloff]

Any news on this? Is there something we can do to help?

[evert]

I'd say this is the main news:

https://evertpot.com/sabredav-eol/

[bigretromike]

So as you dont use baikal saver/dev anymore, whats good/better alternative then ?

[Tntdruid]

@bigretromike

I use https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale

[LucileDT]

Hi! We installed a Baikal on our servers some days ago, and was wondering if you need help upgrading the framework? I develop mainly using Symfony, and I know Silex don't hesitate to poke me if I can work on this project 🙂

[ByteHamster]

Hi @LucileDT! Thank you very much for your offer.

Baikal was pretty much dead and I became a maintainer to keep it dormant (but at least alive). Unfortunately, I do not have the time to test and review a complete rewrite. You might want to have a look at https://github.com/tchapi/davis, which is an already existing rewrite using symphony. That project follows slightly different concepts, though (config files instead of install wizard).

[ByteHamster]

I don't think this PR will be merged. Baikal is in a pretty dormant state. It receives some fixes and little enhancements but not a big rewrite like this. I agree that a rewrite would generally be a good idea but I am pretty busy with other projects and don't think that I will have the time to review such a change in the near future.