Re: [Evolution-hackers] [Evolution] infrastructure

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

Hi Tom,

I'm transferring this topic to the hackers list, so as not to stir up
endless discussion on the user list.


On Sat, 2012-12-29 at 17:11 +0000, Tom Davies wrote:
> At the moment i get the impression that Evolution gets used on a lot
> more platforms and DE's than just Gnome.

That's always been the case but probably more so nowadays, given how
fragmented the free desktop space has become.  I myself am doing most
of my Evolution development on XFCE, using virtualization as needed.


> Is it technically possible to move the project under a different
> umbrella?

Technically possible, yes.  But a HUGE pain in the ass.  Especially the
bug database.  There's at least 12 years of valuable project history in
there.  I would not want to endure the pain without a compelling reason,
and at the moment I see none.

Our hosting on gnome.org is a marriage of convenience.


> Would it make sense to move to The Document Foundation (TDF)?
> At the moment TDF only have 1 product (LibreOffice (LO)) and
> all the Board and everything is geared only to that.

I dunno, sounds to me like we'd be crashing the party.

Without an invitation from TDF, no it would not make sense.


> Would there be any scope for attracting some of their devs to work on
> Evo rather than some of them just doing a little bit on LO and then
> vanishing off into the ether?

Not sure I understand the question.


> I just wondered if anyone here had thought about repositioning Evo
> strategically?

I guess that would first require a strategy?  :)

I'm in kind of a wait-and-see mode with Evolution's GNOME affiliation
given the direction GNOME 3 is going, which has not been to my liking.
But afaik Evolution is still welcome on gnome.org.  So I'm content to
sit tight for now.

Matthew Barnes