: [Evolution] Evolution release and major regressions,a longtime
user's thoughts
Art, one clarification:
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 17:15 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
And that is precisely the problem. N+1 is appropriate for Debian
Experimental, but not for Debian Stable. Ubuntu doesn't have those
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu Hardy to Ubuntu Intrepid. Most of my
GNOME software worked well upon upgrade, there were even some
improvements. However, a major piece of GNOME software that I use every
single day and that is important to both my personal life and business
stopped functioning
While I am as frustrated as you with some of the bugs and regressions
that you mention, I don't think it is constructive, or even in your self
interest, to take such a scolding and tattling tone with people, many of
whom volunteer, to provide you with software for free.
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at
I deeply agree every single character of this post.
In addition, there should also be some fundamental design problem with
the new backend. As far as I understand, its goal was to speed up
certain operations, but what I can see is just the opposite. Beyond that
it is very unstable and unreliable
Art,
[reply below]
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 12:35 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
While I am as frustrated as you with some of the bugs and regressions
that you mention, I don't think it is constructive, or even in your
self interest, to take such a scolding and tattling tone with people,
many of
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 12:55 -0400, Andrew Montalenti wrote:
Art,
[reply below]
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 12:35 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
While I am as frustrated as you with some of the bugs and
regressions
that you mention, I don't think it is constructive, or even in your
self
Art,
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 13:11 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
And while I agree that the developers should take stock of whether they
envision themselves as working on a widely deployed production
application, and release accordingly, I think much of the blame may like
with the Ubuntu packagers,
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 13:23 -0400, Andrew Montalenti wrote:
Though I agree that the Ubuntu maintainers probably should have done
more testing of Evolution in order to declare it a show-stopper, the
problem is that Ubuntu considers the GNOME stable release to be a
baseline. Ubuntu rarely
Art, one clarification:
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 17:15 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
And that is precisely the problem. N+1 is appropriate for Debian
Experimental, but not for Debian Stable. Ubuntu doesn't have those
designations, and when a new version of the distro is released, it is
released
