[ubuntu-us-in] The state of Evolution these days

[Robert Freeman-Day]

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Brian,

Believe me, I am not a user of evolution, I use T-bird and Pine myself.
 I do think that if you wish to rant, you should look into and maybe
offer a means to get people involved...hell, maybe yourself.  Then add
it to the email.

The evolution project page is here: http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/

Get yerself an account and report those crashes to the team's bug
reporter: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Evolution

It may be a good idea to look into their process of hunting those bugs:
http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/bugs.shtml

Now, this search only took 10 minutes...how long did it take to compose
this rant I am replying to?

I also entreat the community (esp those at IU and others using Exchange
2007) to take a peek at openchange (http://www.openchange.org/).  This
could be promising...we will see what we will see, but only if capable
and interested people roll up sleeves and get to testing and contributing.



Brian Fahrlander wrote:
>    OK, for all of you that were put off Evolution when Thunderbird and 
> other, better choices became available are probably curious if Evolution 
> ever got their stuff together.
> 
>   They haven't. Don't bother looking.
> 
>   Starting from nothing- completely empty, nothing imported, I got it 
> set up, fell in love with the linking to Google for scheduling, though 
> it was incapable of saving an address book on Google, something I 
> thought was working from long ago.
> 
>   Very soon I found myself locked, completely, a'la Microsoft, when I 
> hit the reply button.  It locked when I tried to edit the 
> addressbook-setup.  It locked on occasion when I went to send simple 
> messages.
> 
>   In fact, the only time it didn't lock up, was when it was sitting 
> still. So at least they've made that much progress.
> 
>   If anyone's developing for them, here- can ya STOP trying to connect 
> it to new places for new reasons, and simplify what you have, so I could 
> make it through the day without grabbing my machine's power cord?
> 
>   Yeah, it's a rant...but this is Linux. If people don't rant, nothing 
> will change. I spent years in Evolution. I loved where it was going, but 
> the lockups and reboots were too much for me. That's been YEARS AGO.
> 
>   Note that this message was composed in Thunderbird, and I'll be going 
> manually to google to deal with the calendar. THIS IS BETTER THAN 
> INTERRUPTED WORK.
> 
>   Thanks; sorry to just dump, but this is probably the longest-running 
> inept software we have that we can't get rid of.
> 
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