Re: [Evolution-hackers] bug fixing in stable 2.22.x branch

[Chenthill <pchenthill novell com>]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 22:32 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> Patrick
> 
> Evolution follows GNOME release cycles, which has just three dot
> releases on the stable branch (2.22.3). And after that only for
> DoS/Vulnerability fixes there will be dot releases. Distros shipping
> 2.22.x will pick patches from trunk/2.22.x and apply as and when
> required. (Atleast for OpenSUSE, I/my team does that). Im sure
> Ubuntu/Fedora too does the same. 
> 
> If it is a really issue, may be mailing the distributors list on picking
> some patches for Evo/Eds may help.
Where can I get the distributors list to inform them ? I know some
individual email ids, but not sure if its a complete list.


- Chenthill.
> 
> -Srini.
>  
> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 18:41 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a question primarily to the maintainers of the various Linux
> > distributions which include Evolution 2.22.x (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, Debian
> > Lenny), but also to the Evolution hackers: the latest stable release,
> > 2.22.3.1, still contains bugs. There are different ways to deal with
> > this:
> >      1. Evolution upstream continues to apply bug fixes to the 2.22.x as
> >         long as important distributions use that.
> >      2. Maintainers of packages apply patches locally, without or with
> >         help by Evolution upstream. Upstream could help with bug
> >         tracking.
> > 
> > What's the current practice? It seems that upstream has already stopped
> > updating the 2.22 branch and bug fixes are only applied to trunk [1].
> > 
> > I'm bringing this up because at least one of the bugs will become
> > critical in September: as noted this week [2], the conversion of system
> > time zone information into libical time zone information (as used by
> > Evolution) yields an end of summer time which is one week too early for
> > Western Europe. It might also be incorrect for other countries and for
> > the beginning of summer time.
> > 
> > That's particularly disappointing because the work on improving time
> > zone support [2] was supposed to solve such issues. Now it looks like
> > Evolution will fail to display events at the right time - once again!
> > 
> > In addition to this problem I'm sure there are other bugs which could be
> > included in another 2.22.x release. The broken Exchange Connector
> > contact change tracking [1] is one example.
> > 
> > [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546934#c2
> > [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548268
> > [3] http://www.estamos.de/blog/2008/06/22/time-zone-handling-in-evolution/
> > 
> 
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