Re: [Evolution-hackers] Retiring evolution-exchange

2012-06-06 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 08:55 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > What about a "compromise", drop support for evolution-exchange when > 3.7.x development begins? I suppose it'll be fair to have the main API > changes done and any potential community person taking care of it will > not need to learn all the ha

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Retiring evolution-exchange

2012-06-03 Thread Milan Crha
On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 15:48 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > The backend-facing APIs less so. They tend to see more churn anyway, > even without my branch. I can't think of a recent release where the > backend APIs didn't change a little. And that's fine -- the damage is > contained -- but we stil

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Retiring evolution-exchange

2012-06-01 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 19:49 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > evolution-ews >- for 2007,2010 servers (through https, with simpler dependencies) >- it's currently semi-maintained >- note the EWS implementation on Exchange servers is not feature > complete on 2007 servers (I read/saw some a

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Retiring evolution-exchange

2012-06-01 Thread Milan Crha
On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 06:57 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 15:19 +0530, Chenthill wrote: > > Then why not retire evolution-mapi instead of evolution-exchange ? > > I hadn't considered that. I'll defer to Milan to make that call. > > I thought evolution-mapi worked with Exch

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Retiring evolution-exchange

2012-06-01 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 08:39 -0600, Vibha Yadav wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 15:19 +0530, Chenthill wrote: > I can provide you the support. I will be getting into the new project > coming Monday. I can keep myself involved during free time after a > couple of weeks time.. > I can also contribu

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Retiring evolution-exchange

2012-06-01 Thread Vibha Yadav
Thanks & Regards, Vibha >>> Chenthill 6/1/2012 4:37 PM >>> On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 06:57 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 15:19 +0530, Chenthill wrote: > > Then why not retire evolution-mapi instead of evolution-exchange ? > > I hadn't considered that. I'll defer to Milan to

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Retiring evolution-exchange

2012-06-01 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 15:19 +0530, Chenthill wrote: > W.r.t evolution-groupwise, it would be good to continue it until this > release. Sorry, I read "this release" to mean 3.6. If you just meant 3.5.2 then I guess disregard my other response. Haven't had my coffee yet. :) _

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Retiring evolution-exchange

2012-06-01 Thread Chenthill
On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 06:57 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 15:19 +0530, Chenthill wrote: > > Then why not retire evolution-mapi instead of evolution-exchange ? > > I hadn't considered that. I'll defer to Milan to make that call. > > I thought evolution-mapi worked with Exch

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Retiring evolution-exchange

2012-06-01 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 15:19 +0530, Chenthill wrote: > Then why not retire evolution-mapi instead of evolution-exchange ? I hadn't considered that. I'll defer to Milan to make that call. I thought evolution-mapi worked with Exchange 2003 servers at least in theory; I don't know how much actual te

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Retiring evolution-exchange

2012-06-01 Thread Chenthill
On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 16:15 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > The release of Evolution-ActiveSync brings the number of Evolution Data > Server backend modules for Microsoft Exchange up to four. > > Even if we had the manpower to adequately maintain all these, which we > don't, four different backends

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Retiring evolution-exchange

2012-06-01 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 23:19 -0600, Akhil Laddha wrote: > > I'm adding Evolution-GroupWise to the retiree list, since it no longer > > has any active maintainers. Urk; I'm an active user too ... > There were some good amount of changes in groupwise source code post > 3.5.1 release. These

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Retiring evolution-exchange

2012-05-31 Thread Akhil Laddha
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 15:54 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > I'm adding Evolution-GroupWise to the retiree list, since it no longer > has any active maintainers. > > Haven't heard any objections so I take that to mean consent from the > rest of the team. I don't plan to release any more 3.5 tarba

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Retiring evolution-exchange

2012-05-31 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 16:15 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > Therefore I think it's time to retire Evolution-Exchange. That module > has seen steadily decreasing maintenance for several years, the newest > version of Exchange it supports is now a decade old, and frankly it was > never all that relia

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Retiring evolution-exchange

2012-05-25 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 16:15 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > The release of Evolution-ActiveSync brings the number of Evolution Data > Server backend modules for Microsoft Exchange up to four. > > Even if we had the manpower to adequately maintain all these, which we > don't, four different backends