Re: [Evolution] a challenge to the developers

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

> > I've not ever had Evolution
> > hard-freeze that I can recall.
> How much of evolution do you use though?  Single POP account or
> something.  

All day, every day, connected to multiple IMAP servers.

> Probably those of us experiencing such frequent deadlocks
> are using many of evolutions features.  Personally, I use several IMAP
> accounts,

Yep.

>  address books including LDAP

Yep.

>  and several network based and local calendars.

Yep (I develop groupware software after all)

> > It doesn't handle network issues very gracefully,
> No, it doesn't.  Funny enough I just finished saying so in another bug,
> so this is the third time this has been iterated in the last few hours.
> > I'd prefer they write and debug code.
> Well, from all appearances, neither is being done,

How is that?  There is ample evidence of code-writing.
<http://git.gnome.org/cgit/evolution/log/>
<http://git.gnome.org/cgit/evolution-data-server/log/>
The commit rate of Evolution is very high; at least five different
people committed to EDS in the last week.

Check your facts.

> > Dude, pay attention to the list.  They just did a complete port off of
> > Bonobo, which was a big change to the underlying architecture.  Clearly
> > someone is investing a lot of energy into it.
> And that will close how many open bugs? 

It makes the code base much easier for people to work on. So lots.

>  Or will that allow us all to
> have configurable toolbars and whatnot?  I really don't know the
> implications of the killing off of bonobo, but it all sounds like
> eye-candy (and whatnot else new features) rather than directly working
> towards a goal of the fixing of the many open bugs and making Evolution
> usable again.

Do you even know what Bonobo is?  It is an architectural change, and
required to move to GNOME 3.0, and nothing to do with eye candy.