Hi Tom, I'm transferring this topic to the hackers list, so as not to stir up endless discussion on the user list.
On Sat, 2012-12-29 at 17:11 +0000, Tom Davies wrote: > At the moment i get the impression that Evolution gets used on a lot > more platforms and DE's than just Gnome. That's always been the case but probably more so nowadays, given how fragmented the free desktop space has become. I myself am doing most of my Evolution development on XFCE, using virtualization as needed. > Is it technically possible to move the project under a different > umbrella? Technically possible, yes. But a HUGE pain in the ass. Especially the bug database. There's at least 12 years of valuable project history in there. I would not want to endure the pain without a compelling reason, and at the moment I see none. Our hosting on gnome.org is a marriage of convenience. > Would it make sense to move to The Document Foundation (TDF)? > At the moment TDF only have 1 product (LibreOffice (LO)) and > all the Board and everything is geared only to that. I dunno, sounds to me like we'd be crashing the party. Without an invitation from TDF, no it would not make sense. > Would there be any scope for attracting some of their devs to work on > Evo rather than some of them just doing a little bit on LO and then > vanishing off into the ether? Not sure I understand the question. > I just wondered if anyone here had thought about repositioning Evo > strategically? I guess that would first require a strategy? :) I'm in kind of a wait-and-see mode with Evolution's GNOME affiliation given the direction GNOME 3 is going, which has not been to my liking. But afaik Evolution is still welcome on gnome.org. So I'm content to sit tight for now. Matthew Barnes _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers mailing list evolution-hackers@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
