Re: [Evolution] On beta testing

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 01:18 +0100, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> So, I've been feeling guilty about not contributing more to the
> Evolution development cycle -- which in my case means testing for and
> reporting bugs. But I realised something just now and wanted to let the
> developers know if they're reading: I won't beta test Evolution because
> it is simply too crucial an application for me. I completely rely on it.
> That is meant to let you know what an amazing application you've
> written. As a web developer the only things on the desktop I used to be
> absolutely dependent on were Emacs and Mozilla; for Evolution to have
> joined company with them is actually pretty impressive. I'm not a big
> company, I'm a one-guy contractor/consultant; I don't have an enormous
> number of clients, but rather just a nice number of quality ones. But I
> now manage so much of my business life and my private life from within
> Evolution that I realised that I actually rely on Evolution even more
> than Mozilla (after all, I'm knowledgeable enough to work around bugs in
> Mozilla). It's just my way of saying thank you, and also apologising for
> not contributing more .. which come to think of it must be a bit of a
> pain for you guys: the better your product the fewer beta testers you
> might get!
heh, that's a good sign anyway :-)

As for beta testing current 1.5, mail is working pretty well, and
contacts also work quite good. Calendar is a bit behind still, so might
be a problem, but if you only need evo for email and contacts, I'd
suggest you to beta test it, at least starting with a test user to
confirm its stability before moving over fully to it.

And thanks for the support :-)

cheers