On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 16:23 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > > I am at a loss to understand why Evolution - which has worked pretty > > much perfectly ever since I moved over to Ubuntu nearly a decade ago - > > should suddenly start falling over. Has the age-old engineering maxim > > "if it works, don't mess with it" has been disregarded?
I went to the trouble of providing links showing exactly what happened and why with spam filtering in Ubuntu in my previous email. Were those not clear? I not sure why the Evo team decided to require the spam filtering software be present at both build and install time, but that, combined with rigid policy requirements in Ubuntu, caused the Ubuntu team to disable support for external spam filtering. Yes, in an ideal world Ubuntu would not have done that. They would have either promoted the spam filtering software to be part of the "main" distribution (but this would require someone stepping up to support them), or worked with the Evo team to fix the problem, as Milan did last month. However, they took the easy way out and made the 5 second local change of disabling spam filtering. That's unfortunate but understandable: the distributions have a lot of software to wrangle and they only have so much time in the day. > Again, this is to do with the decisions made my Ubuntu. The same > version of Evolution is absolutely stable in other distros - there's > certainly no systematic problem with Evolution. I get the impression > though that some one or some group of people have fallen out of love > with Evo in the Ubuntu camp - I don't particularly think there is a > conspiracy against it, but I think it's not the most important thing > on their mind. One of the features of Ubuntu has always been that rather than installing all the possible tools in each class, they choose _one_ tool in each class to install as the default. Those are the tools that they work hard to make sure are stable and well-integrated. Many, many other tools are available of course, but they must be installed explicitly and these are not necessarily "tier 1" tools in terms of attention and support. For whatever reason, a number of years ago Ubuntu decided to switch to Thunderbird as their default email tool, rather than Evo. While the people in Ubuntu supporting Evo care about it and want it to work well, they don't have as much time (or leverage) to put into it as they otherwise would. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
