Dear Evolution folks, Debianâs next stable release codenamed Wheezy is going to ship GNOME 3.4 with Evolution 3.4.3 (currently) and therefore that will be used for more than two years by its users. Matthew and Milan have expressed several times [1][2] that after Evolution 3.4.4 no further 3.4.x release is planed. Unfortunately already several bugs have been found in 3.4.4 warranting a 3.4.5 release. If I remember correctly, the developers would not oppose a maintenance branch, if others would volunteer to maintain it. (Unfortunately I cannot find the URL in the GNOME Bugzilla or evolution-list. Seeing Alexandre Rostovtsev committed a patch to branch gnome-3-4, I was wondering if other distribution folks â especially maintainers â could speak up regarding their release plans and maybe step up to maintain such a stable branch. I suggest to follow only the rule, that fixes have to be submitted first to master and are only then allowed to be backported to gnome-3-4 as is done for the stable Linux kernel releases. Of course I would also volunteer to upstream the patches tested and applied to the Debian Evolution packages. I hope that will help important and widely used packages to stabilize for their users and also reduce the work for maintainers to not double their work. If that is approved what would the volunteers required to do to get push access to the gnome-3-4 branch? Thanks, Paul [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683732 [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682398#c13
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