Re: [Evolution] stability

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 00:54 -0400, B. Joshua Rosen wrote:
> Evolution has been essentially unusable for almost a year. I'm still on
> Fedora 9 because it has Evolution 2.22 which is the last working
> release, they wemt to SQLite after that which completely broke the
> virtual folders. 

I'm using Evolution 2.24 on openSUSE 11.1 all day every day.  It has
been extremely stable and performance is very good.

> Are there any developers still working on Evolution? I can't understand
> how it could be so completely broken for so long unless it's been
> abandoned.

Obviously there is, the Bonobo-free branch was just trunked.  I imagine
[don't know] that such infrastructure work consumed a fair amount of
resources.  Sometimes backends require love before the front-ends can
advance,  only end-users don't see any of that;  although in the end
they reap the rewards when the front-end [appears to] suddenly surge
forward.  GNOME 3.0 will be Bonobo free with all resources accessible
via the beatific D-Bus.

> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 09:28 +0000, Philipp Kubina wrote:
> > I am working with Evolution for a month now (Ubuntu 9.04, Evolution
> > 2.26.1) and the instability is terrible (multiple crashes every day).
> > Looking at the bug reports from other users I can see that I am not the
> > only one having problems with evolution's stability. Honestly I can not
> > understand how this can be considered a stable release.
> > When is Evolutions stability going to be improved? (Of course I am
> > filing bug reports to help debugging)
> > Philipp