[Evolution-hackers] Current issues with Evolution 2.12 / Exchange
Hi all; This seemed useful to some people last time, so I'm doing it again now. I've been using Evolution from SVN for a few months now tracking the latest changes and overall I've been REALLY happy: so many things are much better, especially with Exchange integration, than in 2.10 or any previous release. Applause and cheers for everyone's hard work over the last 6 months!! However, there are still some issues. I hope now is a good time to point them out so maybe we can concentrate on these for 2.12.1 or 2.12.2. Others might have a different list of issues, but these are mine (links to bugzilla entries). I've updated the bugzilla entries with the latest info I have. As I said, I'm building Evo and all components (libsoup, gtkhtml, e-d-s, evo, evo-exchange, evo-webcal) locally with debugging enabled and running them with full logging, each instance in its own directory. I stand ready and willing to help anyone who wants to, to work on these issues! I've tried to order them in order of precedence (how much I want them fixed), most pain to lesser pain. 478404: Composer stops completing addresses if you come back to the To: line This one just seemed to pop up within the last month or so but it's REALLY annoying. Hopefully it's a simple fix, because it really impacts me a lot. 478151: I lose the ability to see older messages in my Exchange inbox This still happens sometimes. The only way to solve it, once it happens, is to delete the ~/.evolution/exchange and ~/.evolution/mail/exchange folders (actually deleting one might be sufficient; I've never tried to see). As described in the bug, I was given a patch back in August or so and I've been using that patch ever since. The incidence of this seems to have gone down a bit, BUT it definitely still happens. 442098: Folder list shows I have new Exchange mail, but it doesn't appear in the summary This one is really annoying, as it happens all the time. In order to fix it, I have to restart Evolution. It used to happen regularly if I visited my local inbox, then went back to the Exchange inbox. Now it seems to be harder to trigger but still relatively common. I think now that it happens when I visit my local Junk folder. 478090: Tried to create a meeting on the Exchange server, and Evo crashed when adding an address This is a big one for me, because I need to schedule meetings through this mailing list. Because of this problem I have to create my meetings through Exchange webmail rather than Evolution! Luckily (in all senses of the word) I don't have to create meetings very often. 436615: Attendees are deleted from Exchange meetings If I create a meeting and save it, then go back to edit it and click on the Attendees button to get the dialog for adding new attendees, then save that, all my previously existing attendees disappear. This happens every time. This is a really bad bug in that you lose data; however you can avoid it by not using the Attendees dialog but instead entering new attendees directly into the meeting list (with the Add button). 478439: Contact lookups for GAL never return I think this has been around for a while but I never bothered to report it until now. I don't run into this that much but it's a pain when I need to look up someone. 478090: Meeting acceptances for attendees who weren't listed are lost This isn't a huge deal, but it's pretty annoying. -- - Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://make.mad-scientist.us Please remain calm--I may be mad, but I am a professional.--Mad Scientist ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
[Evolution-hackers] Let's clean up dead files in Subversion trunk
With GNOME 2.22 development just now getting under way, this seems like a good time for some fall cleaning. There's quite a few files still living in Subversion trunk that we did not ship for GNOME 2.20. I've filed a series of bug reports about this, hoping that we can collectively sift through the lists and decide what should stay and what should go, as maybe spot files we *should* have shipped that got overlooked. I'm of the opinion that, in general, trunk should only contain what we ship. If we need to resurrect a file down the road we can always fetch it from SCM archives. Keeping dead, unshipped source code files in trunk is especially detrimental to developers because someone will inevitably waste time maintaining them, not realizing or forgetting they're dead. I've lost track of the number of times this has happened to me. Here's the list of bug reports. Please to comments about specific files to the appropriate bug. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478704 (Evolution) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478692 (Evolution-Data-Server) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478680 (Evolution-Exchange) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478670 (GtkHtml) Matthew Barnes ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
[Evolution-hackers] SVN issues
Hi all; I'm not an evolution developer but I'm trying to understand the way the project uses subversion. I have some questions, especially now that there's been a release of 2.12: * Shouldn't there be a gnome-2-20 branch on evolution-webcal? there may be other Evo modules that don't have the right branch. * I notice that the versions of the code that I'm building still say 2.11.92, rather than 2.12, but I thought that 2.12 was officially released? I don't see anything on the gnome-2-20 branch that changes the version number, which is where you'd expect it to be. * Are we adding tags to the code to denote the release? I don't see any tags that seem to be related to this release. Thanks. -- - Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://make.mad-scientist.us Please remain calm--I may be mad, but I am a professional.--Mad Scientist ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] Current issues with Evolution 2.12 / Exchange [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 12:51 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: Hi all; G'day! 478151: I lose the ability to see older messages in my Exchange inbox This happened to me yesterday with 2.11.90! Restarting Evolution still wouldn't let me see any messages at all in my Exchange INBOX and would sometimes crash evolution-exchange-storage. Deleting ~/.evolution/mail/exchange/[MYEXCHANGEADDRESS]/personal/subfolders/Inbox fixed the problem. I think, although I can't be sure, that it happened after restarting Evolution because of the bug bug below: 442098: Folder list shows I have new Exchange mail, but it doesn't appear in the summary This one has been happening to me since 2.8 but has mostly been fixed since I downloaded the 2.10 and 2.11 source and compiled my own rather than use the Fedora Core 6 package. However I can still make it happen every single time if I visit my Unread Mail search folder. Unread Mail searches two IMAP inboxes and one Exchange inbox for any messages received within 1 week or is not Read. I've given up using it and just read the mail in the real mailboxes now. Even removing the Exchange inbox from the search and just having the two IMAP inboxes still causes new mail in the Exchange inbox to not appear. Paul, thanks for the Subversion Makefile thingy. I've had a go running it on my Fedora Core 6 box and after a little bit of fiddling I've nearly got it to work. I just need to install a newer version of intltool (the FC6 supplied version is too old) and hopefully I'll get it to build. The only change I had to make to the Makefile to get it to work was on line 271. I had to change: $V pkg='$*'; $(SVN) checkout '$(SVNPKGURL)' $$pkg to: $V pkg='$*'; $(SVN) checkout $(SVNPKGURL) $$pkg The single quotes around $(SVNPKGURL) meant that the contents of that variable were being quoted literally in the shell so the $pkg shell variable was not being expanded. Thanks! -- Shane McEwan - Bureau of Meteorology - Cape Grim BAPS Don't anthropomorphise computers, they don't like it! 159 Nelson St, Smithton, Tasmania - Ph 03 6452 1629 - Fax 03 6452 2600 ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] [Evolution] Current issues with Evolution 2.12 / Exchange
Hi Paul.. On 20/09/2007, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all; This seemed useful to some people last time, so I'm doing it again now. I've been using Evolution from SVN for a few months now tracking the latest changes and overall I've been REALLY happy: so many things are much better, especially with Exchange integration, than in 2.10 or any previous release. Applause and cheers for everyone's hard work over the last 6 months!! However, there are still some issues. I hope now is a good time to point them out so maybe we can concentrate on these for 2.12.1 or 2.12.2. Others might have a different list of issues, but these are mine (links to bugzilla entries). I've updated the bugzilla entries with the latest info I have. As I said, I'm building Evo and all components (libsoup, gtkhtml, e-d-s, evo, evo-exchange, evo-webcal) locally with debugging enabled and running them with full logging, each instance in its own directory. I stand ready and willing to help anyone who wants to, to work on these issues! I've tried to order them in order of precedence (how much I want them fixed), most pain to lesser pain. 478090: Tried to create a meeting on the Exchange server, and Evo crashed when adding an address http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478090 This is a big one for me, because I need to schedule meetings through this mailing list. Because of this problem I have to create my meetings through Exchange webmail rather than Evolution! Luckily (in all senses of the word) I don't have to create meetings very often. the link: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478038 478090: Meeting acceptances for attendees who weren't listed are losthttp://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478090 This isn't a huge deal, but it's pretty annoying. Thanks for the input !! -Suman -- - Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://make.mad-scientist.u http://make.mad-scientist.us Please remain calm--I may be mad, but I am a professional.--Mad Scientist ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] Current issues with Evolution 2.12 / Exchange [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:41 +1000, Shane McEwan wrote: 478151: I lose the ability to see older messages in my Exchange inbox This happened to me yesterday with 2.11.90! Restarting Evolution still wouldn't let me see any messages at all in my Exchange INBOX and would sometimes crash evolution-exchange-storage. Deleting ~/.evolution/mail/exchange/[MYEXCHANGEADDRESS]/personal/subfolders/Inbox fixed the problem. Here's a question: did you notice what was the earliest visible email? It sounds almost impossible to believe but EVERY time this happens to me it happens the same way: all the mail in my Inbox before July 01, 2007 becomes invisible. It doesn't seem to matter how many emails I have in my inbox after that, it's always that day. I've even deleted some of the mail in early July and late June but it still happened the same way. So bizarre. 442098: Folder list shows I have new Exchange mail, but it doesn't appear in the summary This one has been happening to me since 2.8 but has mostly been fixed since I downloaded the 2.10 and 2.11 source and compiled my own rather than use the Fedora Core 6 package. However I can still make it happen every single time if I visit my Unread Mail search folder. Unread Mail searches two IMAP inboxes and one Exchange inbox for any messages received within 1 week or is not Read. This used to happen very repeatably: I just had to visit my local Inbox or my local Junk folder and *bang*, no new mail would show up in the Exchange inbox. Now, it's not so easy; I think it might only be happening with the Junk folder now. Paul, thanks for the Subversion Makefile thingy. I've had a go running it on my Fedora Core 6 box and after a little bit of fiddling I've nearly got it to work. I just need to install a newer version of intltool (the FC6 supplied version is too old) and hopefully I'll get it to build. Cool! The only change I had to make to the Makefile to get it to work was on line 271. I had to change: $V pkg='$*'; $(SVN) checkout '$(SVNPKGURL)' $$pkg to: $V pkg='$*'; $(SVN) checkout $(SVNPKGURL) $$pkg Doh! Stupid. OK, I put a fixed version up on the web. Cheers! -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.us Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional. --Mad Scientist ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] [Evolution] Current issues with Evolution 2.12 / Exchange
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 06:33 +0530, Suman wrote: the link: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478038 Whoops; thanks. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.us Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional. --Mad Scientist ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] Current issues with Evolution 2.12 / Exchange [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 01:02 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: 478151: I lose the ability to see older messages in my Exchange inbox Here's a question: did you notice what was the earliest visible email? It sounds almost impossible to believe but EVERY time this happens to me it happens the same way: all the mail in my Inbox before July 01, 2007 becomes invisible. It doesn't seem to matter how many emails I have in my inbox after that, it's always that day. I've even deleted some of the mail in early July and late June but it still happened the same way. I only have 1 message before July 01 (I religiously archive old mail) but I couldn't see ANY message in my INBOX not even the one from June. Plus, this is the first time I've ever seen this happen. So it could be a different problem with the same solution. :-) 442098: Folder list shows I have new Exchange mail, but it doesn't appear in the summary This used to happen very repeatably: I just had to visit my local Inbox or my local Junk folder and *bang*, no new mail would show up in the Exchange inbox. Now, it's not so easy; I think it might only be happening with the Junk folder now. I can recreate it every single time by going to the Unread Mail search folder. As a test I just deleted the search folder (in Evolution, not in the shell) and recreated it and now the problem has gone away! So my money is on some sort of corrupted config file somewhere. Argh! -- Shane McEwan - Bureau of Meteorology - Cape Grim BAPS Don't anthropomorphise computers, they don't like it! 159 Nelson St, Smithton, Tasmania - Ph 03 6452 1629 - Fax 03 6452 2600 ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] Let's clean up dead files in Subversion trunk
Matthew, I think this is a nice move. We should get rid of all the dead files out of the trunk. We can take this over bugzilla. -Srini. On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 15:14 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: With GNOME 2.22 development just now getting under way, this seems like a good time for some fall cleaning. There's quite a few files still living in Subversion trunk that we did not ship for GNOME 2.20. I've filed a series of bug reports about this, hoping that we can collectively sift through the lists and decide what should stay and what should go, as maybe spot files we *should* have shipped that got overlooked. I'm of the opinion that, in general, trunk should only contain what we ship. If we need to resurrect a file down the road we can always fetch it from SCM archives. Keeping dead, unshipped source code files in trunk is especially detrimental to developers because someone will inevitably waste time maintaining them, not realizing or forgetting they're dead. I've lost track of the number of times this has happened to me. Here's the list of bug reports. Please to comments about specific files to the appropriate bug. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478704 (Evolution) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478692 (Evolution-Data-Server) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478680 (Evolution-Exchange) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478670 (GtkHtml) Matthew Barnes ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
