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Vibha >>> Chenthill <pchenthill gmail com> 6/1/2012 4:37 PM >>> On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 06:57 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 15:19 +0530, Chenthill wrote: > > Then why not retire evolution-mapi instead of evolution-exchange ? > > I hadn't considered that. I'll defer to Milan to make that call. > > I thought evolution-mapi worked with Exchange 2003 servers at least in > theory; I don't know how much actual testing that's had. And I know > Milan has been maintaining evo-mapi more actively than evo-exchange and > has a good working relationship with the OpenChange developers. > > In any case, maintaining this many different backends for Exchange is > ridiculous and we need to drop at least one of them given our manpower > shortage. I guess I don't care so much which, and am probably not the > most qualified to choose. +1
> > What do you think, Milan? > > > > I do understand that you looked at the code updates and available > > developers to decide. It would also be good if we choose what to support > > based on, what would work as a good enterprise solution. I say > > enterprise since we are here talking about exchange and groupwise. > > > > W.r.t evolution-groupwise, it would be good to continue it until this > > release. I second the reason which Akhil has mentioned in another email. > > We would also need to give it sometime to see if there are people > > interested in contributing there. > > The thing is, all of these modules are going to require significant work > to adapt to the branch I'm about to merge -- groupwise perhaps even more > than the rest -- and given that I don't even have access to a GroupWise > server to test the changes I'll have to make to it, I'm highly resistant > to bothering with it if it's not going to have a full-time maintainer > going forward. > > If someone were to step forward as at least a short-term maintainer that > could help test the changes, I would reconsider. I can provide you the support. I will be getting into the new project coming Monday. I can keep myself involved during free time after a couple of weeks time.. - Chenthill. I can also contribute in my free time as well for GroupWise. As exchange, EWS and GroupWise are good enterprise solutions for Evolution.
> > I will, however, release an evolution-groupwise 3.5.2 with the changes > you made recently for it. That's a fair request. > > Matthew Barnes > _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers mailing list evolution-hackers gnome org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers |