Re: Proposed: Evolution (and associated libs)

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 00:46, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Evolution
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> 
> Although the inclusion of Evolution itself may be somewhat controversial, I
> don't think there's much controversy over the inclusion of data-server and
> the other modules (although now we have THREE html renderers in the Desktop
> release, which is getting silly). Evo is fairly unstable right now, and is
> obviously undergoing a lot of changes - will it be ready in time? The i18n
> team has raised some issues about the number of strings and lack of
> translator attention so far - will this significantly impact supported langs
> for 2.6? Would it make sense to get the infrastructure into the Desktop, see
> Evolution's successful release "when it's ready", and come back to it for
> inclusion in 2.8? Last but not least, what about all the controversy about
> GNOME 'choosing' a mailer (and groupware suite)? Would it make sense to have
> the application outside the Desktop permanently? (My personal view on these
> issues is that Evo should be in the Desktop, and we should focus on deep
> integration through it and e-d-s and so on, but I know various people have
> strongly differing views.)
> 
> Modules involved: evolution, evolution-data-server, gal, gtkhtml, libsoup

Almost forgot this one.  I have Evolution 1.4 installed, and it has very
good documentation.  I understand that there are a lot of changes to the
interface in 1.5, and I haven't yet checked how well the documentation
has followed these changes.  But Ximian backs Evolution with some really
good writers, so I'm confident documentation won't be a problem here.

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Shaun