Re: [Evolution] evo 2

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 17:21 -0400, Kelly J. Morris wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 16:53, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > the evolution lists are for evolution only. 
>
> Updating Evolution is not germane to an Evolution list?
Sure, if you want to use the source tar files which we release.  Beyond that point we have no impact and little knowledge of what goes on.  We don't build rpm's for red-carpet or fedora or debian or anyone else.

We do however release snapshot rpm's as a convenience for users to provide early feedback on test alpha/beta versions on selected platforms.

This list is for discussions among the users of evolution and for developers to help out on problems they can.  e.g. bugs/known issues, compiling problems, things which need looking into.  Being a free software project, we hope to get some benefit from this activity since users will be prompted to find build errors, or install issues, and feed them back to us.  Free software works both ways, i thought.
> > not general tech-support (we
> > are developers of evolution, not tech support personel
>
> If you say so. But, I was directed here, and when I subscribed, I
> received the following message: "
> Welcome to the evolution lists ximian com mailing list! This list is
> for discussion of Ximian Evolution, the GNOME mail, calendar, and
> address book (groupware) application.
>
> No indication anywhere that this is a developers-only list. 
Discussion of the product, not how to get packages for FredsLinux 5.0 ... occasionally you'll get a fredslinux rep on the line to comment (e.g. the mandrake people are good at this), but its not always the easiest and most efficient way to find out such info.
> >  and so we have no
> > clue about what is happening with SuSE 9.0 support, etc)
>
> Boy, that sure encourages me to get behind Novell/SuSE/Ximian! But
> thanks for your candor ...
>
> So, as Ximian's official rep, you're telling me to get off this list and
> go somewhere else with my Evolution questions?
Depends on what questions they are.

But how are we supposed to know about SuSe 9.x or anything else?  Do you think we have time to keep track of even our own product schedule let alone every other project in the company?  There are other more suitable forums for asking those sort of questions.  We don't build the released packages, and they people that do aren't on this list.

Like almost every other free software project, we write the code, we release the code, the distributions distribute the code.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer