Re: [Evolution] [Fwd: Re: Evolution-Connector W/ Exchange 2007]

["Veerapuram Varadhan" <vvaradhan novell com>]

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 20:43 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 08:54 -0600, Veerapuram Varadhan wrote:
>
> > 2.11.5 will be one of the rock-solid releases in the history of
> > Evolution-exchange connector.  If you are not an user of Exchange 2007
> > and have issues, feel free to direct to us.  I think Reid and others
> > would agree to me on this - we will work on the issue and resolve it.
>
> I'm all for anything that makes the system more stable.  I don't use
> shared folders or shared calendars (just free/busy to schedule
> meetings), and foverall Evo works well.  I don't want to whine too
> much because I well remember the Evo 1.4 days and how buggy the
> connector was back then, and life has improved dramatically since
> then!
>
> But, there ARE still serious problems in Evo/Connector (I'm using
> 2.10.1 on Ubuntu Feisty):
>
> 436628: No reminders for scheduled meetings
> This is probably the worst one.  The main reason I moved to Evo was to
> get reminders for my meetings.  I still regularly am late to or
> completely miss a meeting or two a week because of this (I missed two
> meetings just today!!)
We have worked on this issue, IIRC and have fixes for it.  We will be
comitting it for 2.11.5.

> 442098: New mail shows up in the folder but not in the summary window
> This one is a killer for productivity.  If it weren't for the fact
> that it only happens on my system at home and not my work system I'd
> be tearing my hair out.  I literally have to restart Evo every 15
> minutes or so to see my new mail when I'm at home.
This one is a serious issue and I have been trying hard to reproduce,
but in vain.  I have worked with couple of users on this in #evolution
IRC channel in irc.gimp.org.  Can anyone of you - whoever is facing this
issue - give me a scenario to reproduce this reliably?  I can guarantee
a fix in 2 days, once I have the scenario.  Our test environment works
fine and that cannot be really relied upon for such bugs.

> 442186: Delete of the first Exchange message after Evo starts takes
> ~30 seconds
> This is just a small thing but (combined with 442098 which causes me
> to stop/start Evo many times a day) it's quite annoying.
This is fixed and will be committed for 2.11.5.  Once the fix is
committed, I will update the bug with a little-readme about the fix.

> 436615: Editing existing meetings with Address Book deletes all
> attendees
> This is truly annoying; I only rate it lower because if you're paying
> attention you can usually avoid the problem (by not using the Address
> Book).
>
> 436619: Adding a meeting room as "Resource" gives "unable to book"
> This is another annoying one but once you know the trick you can work
> around it so it's not as important.
>
> Here's the thing: these bugs have all been filed for weeks, and yet
> there has not been a single note filed, request for more info, or any
> other indication anyone even knows they exist.  I often see people on
> this list ask if a bug has been filed in Bugzilla but I don't see much
> incentive for anyone to do so: to me it seems like the only way an
> issue gets much traction is to raise it here rather than Bugzilla.
I agree with you on this.  We weren't doing great with bugzilla, but,
recently we started improving our activities.  However, it would take
little time and in order to quicken up, I have created
http://www.go-evolution.org/Connector-bugs for easier interaction with
the development team.  (A little duplication, but effective)

> Just my $0.02.
Very much appreciated.  Devs/Hackers have their own priority of tasks
and are quite prone to miss paying attention to bugs immediately.  This
kind of a friendly poke will help them adjust their priority to
accommodate some of these as TODOs.

> BTW, is it possible to run Evo 2.11 without installing all of Gnome
> 2.19?  In other words, can I build Evo (even if I use garnome and
> build all of gnome and install it in a separate location) but then
> just run Evo 2.11 with my Feisty Gnome 2.18.1 desktop?  Or does Evo
> depend on some features only available in Gnome 2.19?
Yes, it is possible and you don't need other GNOME 2.19 modules - except
libsoup, gtkhtml, EDS, Evolution and Evolution-exchange for running
latest and hot 2.11.x code base. 

Thanks,

V. Varadhan

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