Re: [Evolution] Some keys not enterable in search?

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2018-01-01 at 20:40 -0500, andré via evolution-list wrote:
> Le 2018-01-01 à 18:18, Paul Smith a écrit :
> > On Mon, 2018-01-01 at 15:36 -0500, andré via evolution-list wrote:
> > > > > > Ubuntu seems to ship an ancient version.
> > > > >
> > > > > "Ancient version"?  This release is less than three months old.
> > > > > I wouldn't call that "ancient".
> > > >
> > > > Maybe "outdated" is a better word in English.
> > >
> > > This exchange reminds me of a common use of "modern" instead of
> > > "recent", for hardware less than a year or 2 old.
> > > "outdated" after 3 months seems a bit extreme.  Maybe better to say
> > > prefer to support "latest" version or "current release".
> >
> > "Outdated" is a perfectly fine term, IMHO.  The release _is_ outdated,
> > since there's a newer release.  It's just not ancient :).
>
> "outdated" suggests it is no longer supported.  After 3 months ?
> Not sure that that will help the reputation of the Evolution project.

I agree that 'outdated' gives the wrong impression and is not the term
I would use, however if a distro doesn't provide the latest version it
is not the fault of Evolution.

> Note that distros generally release every 6 months to a year, and often 
> don't upgrade many packages except for security & bug fixes, so it would 
> make sense for upstream projects (like Evolution) to support for at 
> least a year.

Evolution is part of the Gnome project and follows its support and
update policies.

poc