On Mon, 2018-01-01 at 20:40 -0500, andré via evolution-list wrote: > Le 2018-01-01 à 18:18, Paul Smith a écrit : > > On Mon, 2018-01-01 at 15:36 -0500, andré via evolution-list wrote: > > > > > > Ubuntu seems to ship an ancient version. > > > > > > > > > > "Ancient version"? This release is less than three months old. > > > > > I wouldn't call that "ancient". > > > > > > > > Maybe "outdated" is a better word in English. > > > > > > This exchange reminds me of a common use of "modern" instead of > > > "recent", for hardware less than a year or 2 old. > > > "outdated" after 3 months seems a bit extreme. Maybe better to say > > > prefer to support "latest" version or "current release". > > > > "Outdated" is a perfectly fine term, IMHO. The release _is_ outdated, > > since there's a newer release. It's just not ancient :). > > "outdated" suggests it is no longer supported. After 3 months ? > Not sure that that will help the reputation of the Evolution project.
I agree that 'outdated' gives the wrong impression and is not the term I would use, however if a distro doesn't provide the latest version it is not the fault of Evolution. > Note that distros generally release every 6 months to a year, and often > don't upgrade many packages except for security & bug fixes, so it would > make sense for upstream projects (like Evolution) to support for at > least a year. Evolution is part of the Gnome project and follows its support and update policies. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
