Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 Released and What's Next

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 09:21 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> Please see today's announcement:
> 
> https://ubuntugnome.org/ubuntu-gnome-17-04-released/
> 
> On behalf of the Ubuntu GNOME Team,

I was really excited to read this:

> For the first time in Ubuntu GNOME’s history, this release includes
> the latest stable release of GNOME, 3.24.

Awesome!

But then my excitement turned sour when I read this from the release
notes:

> For stability, the Evolution stack is still at its GNOME 3.22 versions.

Argh!

I don't understand this outdated attitude towards Evolution.  It's been
many releases since this has been justifiable (I'd argue that the
justification was always somewhat questionable but at least during the
webkit migration there was an argument to be made).  I use Evolution all
day every day for all my mail including both home and work email, and in
my opinion there are more bugs and issues with the previous version than
the latest version, in almost every release these days.

I hope that the Ubuntu / Ubuntu GNOME team will re-evaluate their
attitudes WRT Evolution stability and begin treating it as a first-class 
citizen starting with Ubuntu 17.10.  An "A" version sounds like a
perfect time to make that change!

Thanks for all your hard work on Ubuntu GNOME, and I'm looking forward
to great things from the tighter integration going forward.