Re: [Evolution] Feedback

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

>  I am not in a position
> to be able to contribute any significant amount of time to the
> development of Evolution, but occasionally have questions or
> observations that I would like to pass on to the people who are making
> such contributions. I also make a distinction between web hosted forums,
> where one can look for answers and post questions and observations, and
> mailing lists. It seemed to me that the only way to forward any
> communication to anyone involved with the development of evolution was
> to sign up for the mailing list. In my past experience with other open
> source projects, this has resulted in receiving a continuous barrage of
> emails dealing with specific coding issues, which are certainly
> important to the developer group working on the project, but of no
> interest to those people who simply use the product. 

There's a developers mailing list for that sort of thing - this mailing
list is for users.

> For the most part,
> the questions asked by most users are not of interest to me either. I am
> interested in having a place (a virtual place) to go where I can look
> for answers to questions about how to use the Evolution product. I have
> been using Evolution for several years, and have searched multiple times
> for some source that provides answers to the questions I have, but have
> not been able to find such a source.

Have you looked in the archive of this mailing list?

> Finally, I am surprised and gratified by the response I have received to
> my somewhat grumpy email (Ralf Mardorf also responded),

Why surprised?  This mailing list is exactly for that sort of thing -
you have a query or comment about evolution: people here will help you.

P.