> 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. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
