I have filed I don't know how many bugs this weekend. Probably some are duplicates, but when you have to wade through 79 bugs matching a function in a frame in a stacktrace, it's just plain out of control. I am so frustrated with the many crashes of evolution I get a day and that every time I do crash I have to wait at least 10 minutes on start up before any vfolders are usable again, only to have it crash again very shortly. And many of these crashes and bugs are way too old. Some have been around for years and through many, many successive versions of Evolution. So here is my challenge to the evolution development team: I challenge the entire development team to spend and entire development and release cycle -- yes, an entire 6 months -- doing nothing bug triaging your bug queue, closing out fixed bugs and duplicate bugs and most importantly, fixing the open ones. During this cycle, not a single new feature should land. Yeah. It would be a sucky development cycle, but just think of the feeling of accomplishment you'd get out of knowing how much more stable (read: usable) evolution has become due to your efforts. Think of how appreciative the people that are experiencing the pain will be. I for one couldn't tell you how overjoyed I'd be to not see a single new feature go into evolution until some of the major PITA bugs are fixed. And that includes the bonobo-killing branch -- for whatever that's going to do for us. So what say y'all? Are you up to my challenge? I am perfectly willing and able to help in any way I can. I can build current releases with debugging and/or bugfix patches to help. I can gather stack traces from crashed instances. I can drive gdb. Whatever. I am soooo frustrated at this point that I am willing to do anything I am able to. Unfortunately, the time constraints in my life pretty much eliminate being able to spend the kind of time I would need to to fully understand the whole stack and fix all of these bugs myself. Cheers, b.
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