Re: [Evolution] A ppa for Evolution?

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 23:51 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 14:27 +0000, Jeffrey Needle wrote:
> > I would think that the Evolution people would find this to be a desirable 
> > thing to do, in order to ensure that folks have the latest version of the 
> > software.
> As upstream developers, Milan and I periodically publish source code
> tarballs.  In an open source project, the source code IS the product.
> http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/download.shtml
> It's also part of our job requirement as Red Hat employees to create
> binary RPM packages from these source code tarballs for Fedora users.
> Beyond that, it's up to software distributions to... ya know, distribute
> software.  Some distributions do a better job at keeping up than others.

openSUSE has a repository for the major releases of GNOME shortly after
they come out.  Works great! I get a stable and well packaged
distribution and I get to be on current versions of the entire GNOME
stack.
<http://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2012/09/gnome-3-6-for-opensuse-12-2/>