Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution progress for 2.22

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

Hello Guys,

With 2.21.4 out, this is the update/status-check on where we are wrt
2.22 release schedule.

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 10:41 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:

> I'm hoping to get the following things for 2.22 cycle.
> 
> * Exchange Smartcard support (Mostly done and GAL is still pending)
> * Non-Intrusive error reporting (Prototype patch is there, not started
> yet)
The framework as well the mail-thread integration is already committed.
It features a log viewer as well. Read my blog [1] for more detailed
description of the feature.

> * Matt's new-look composer
Matt has already posted his mail [2] about the status on the composer
branch (I haven't compiled that yet though). We should be looking at the
Phase 1 & 2 for 2.22, keeping Jan 28 as the target for UI Freeze.

New additions:

* Evolution crash detection also made it to 2.21.4. If Evolution crashes
and on next start, it gives a option to hide preview panes to over come
the issues of recurring-crash-on-mail-read. This can be disabled through
the dialog itself.

* Milan has picked Sankar's work on Message tagging (Custom labels) and
made it for 2.21.4. Some more patches for this are yet to hit the trunk.
But the base feature works though.

Apart from these, I don't think we would be adding any new features for
2.21.x and we would be focusing more on to bug fixing, stability and
performance issues only.

MAPI is something that is going on in parallel. It should be available
as a external rpm/plugin for 2.22/2.12 users.

-Srini.

[1] - http://blogs.gnome.org/sragavan/2007/12/18/annoying-popups-with-evolution-hmmno-more/
[2] -
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-hackers/2007-December/msg00016.html