Dear Matthew, Am Mittwoch, den 19.09.2012, 10:13 -0400 schrieb Matthew Barnes:
I've never been very good about posting release announcements, but Evolution 3.6.0 is set to be released next week and it's a pretty big release for us. I just wanted to highlight a couple major changes so you know what to expect.
thank you very much for the announcement. Such things are much appreciated. I know they take quite some time to write, but it is time well spent.
Hello, WebKit! -------------- We're in the process of abandoning our ancient HTML renderer (GtkHtml) for WebKit/GTK+. We're spreading this across two releases just because it's such a large workload. Dan VrÃtil did most of the WebKit porting and he's an absolute superhero for doing so. Evolution 3.6 will render received mail using WebKit/GTK+. That means HTML mails containing CSS will finally be displayed correctly, since our old HTML renderer had no CSS support. The email composer in Evolution 3.6 will still use GtkHtml, but Dan already has a branch ready to merge which ports the composer to WebKit, so we'll spend the entire 3.7 development cycle testing that and shaking out the bugs in time for Evolution 3.8 next spring.
A more official statement than Andreâs reply to my message [1] about the security implications would be nice.
Goodbye GConf! --------------
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Evolution 3.6 will move your account data to plain text files which live in $HOME/.config/evolution/sources. Evolution-Data-Server 3.6 will also introduce a new D-Bus service which will serve these files to Evolution, GNOME Contacts, GNOME Shell and any other E-D-S client, and also handle various other miscellaneous chores like talking to GNOME Online Accounts and cleaning up old data after you delete an account.
It would be great if that migration stuff is a separate so people can test that beforehand for example. Could you please point to some write up in the source or a Wiki explaining the new format. For example also how passwords are stored. [â]
Smaller Development Team ------------------------ And now for some sad news. Since Evolution 3.4 was released we've had a significant reduction in our development team. SUSE decided to cut all funding of Evolution development and reassigned its (formerly Novell) Evolution developers elsewhere. That leaves just myself, Milan Crha and Dan VrÃtil (all Red Hatters). However Dan is in the process transitioning over to Red Hat's KDE team, leaving myself and Milan as the only remaining full time developers for the moment. Red Hat does have an open position in the Brno, Czech Republic office for a new full-time Evolution developer [1], if anyone is interested. Unfortunately this staff reduction caused a few software causalities: * Evolution-GroupWise is now unmaintained and will not see a 3.6 release. The SUSE team had been maintaining this prior to their reassignment, and unfortunately we just don't have adequate resources to keep it going. If anyone would like to take over maintainership, I'd be happy to assist with getting the module back up to speed. * Evolution-Exchange is also cut for the same reasons. That's the old Ximian Connector, which talks to Exchange 2003 via Outlook Web Access but doesn't work with Exchange 2007 or later. For Exchange integration, most of our development focus is now on the Exchange Web Services module (Evolution-EWS), but Evolution-MAPI is still being maintained since it works with Exchange 2003 as well as 2007 and 2010. With only two full-time developers left, we just felt that maintaining three different Microsoft Exchange backends was getting ridiculous and was not the best use of our time.
Are the reasons of SUSE known? Do there customers not use Evolution or if they do, they do not use Microsoft Exchange? Additionally are there any software company providing Evolution support?
No worries though, we will soldier on.
I wish you the best. Thanks, Paul
[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2012/09/13/interested-in-joining-the-red-hat-desktop-team-here-in-brno/
[2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2012-August/msg00115.html
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