[Evolution] Idealism face plants against asphalt [Was: downloads page]

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 14:24 +0100, Tom Davies wrote:
> Quality often seems to come with quantity. 

Eh?

>  In anarchist/co-operative groups it's often been the most disruptive
> people that got turned around by the nature of the group/organisation
> and become a driving force, even Chairperson or Company Secretary.  

What are you talking about?  This is a FLOSS project.

> However to find those "gems" the group accepts tons of people and
> although most of those turn out to help in minor ways with easy things
> it's difficult to always see exactly what they are doing. 

No, with FLOSS the process of winnowing the developers happens
naturally, with the emphasis being on people who winnow themselves out.


> 1.  Easier to download and install.  
> People here obviously find it easy to compile but

What?  You are engaging in blatant conflations.  Users are not
developers,  users will never compile anything.

> most people out there haven't got a clue and find it too scary as a
> prospect.  Much easier to download and install a competitor such as
> Thunderbird or Claws and miss out on all the amazing things Evo can do
> that those others can't.  

I install a LINUX distribution, then I install Evolution from there.
THAT IS HOW LINUX SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION WORKS,  VIA THE
***DISTRIBUTION*** - HENCE THE NAME "DISTRIBUTION"!

> 2.  Some sort of forum 

There is one, you are in it!

> 3.  A donations button

And donate to whom?   

How many FLOSS projects have you actively participated in or contributed
to?

> When you fixed the problem i was having and got Evo working on one
> machine i was almost ready to donate even though i am a little
> scottish and very careful about avoiding spending.  If Evo had a
> "donate" button in easy reach i might have clicked it for some small
> amount, maybe $5 or $10.

There are several websites that allow you to post bounties on project
bugs.  I have bounties on project bugs, including ones on Evolution.
Some have been closed.  

Generally the developer's response is - I don't care.  In the past I've
offered as much as several hundred dollars on a bug, had it closed, and
been told by the developer he didn't care about the bounty.


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Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA