Re: [Evolution] Evolution discussion (Ubuntu Community)

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Wed, 2020-12-16 at 11:49 +0100, theapplepie differentmail com wrote:
> > Out of interest (and it's not meant in a derogatory way), but do
> > > people
> > > really think that posting things in an OS specific forum, like
> > Ubuntu
> > > Discourse or Ask Fedora, magically gets back to developers or
> > > will
> > > elicit answers from communities such as this?
> >
> > No, I suspect they are having a 'casual' conversation.  Who's to
> > say
> > they are even interested in a response?  My kinda l-o-n-g
> > experience
> > with this is that they probably are not.
>
> I agree with Adam. As far as I can tell it is a conversation about the
> pro and cons of Evolution & Thunderbird. The user stating the Evolution
> issues uses Thunderbird and that is why he does not post it on a
> Evolution specific site.
>
> I mentioned the thread as there are other Ubuntu users on this list and
> they might be interested in the discussion and want to comment. If not,
> no problem ;).
I understand in this particular case. But in general, like the vertical
view issue I helped with yesterday, the issue was posted in an Ubuntu
forum a year ago and it feels like because there was no answer, it must
be a problem with Evolution, yet it was solved here immediately.

But as I said, it was just idle curiosity.

P.