Am Donnerstag, den 27.01.2011, 16:04 +0000 schrieb Matt Davey: > I'm not sure this is the right list, as this is more of a policy > question than a dev question. > > I recently logged a bug (#639970) that crops up every now and again for > me, and it was closed as OBSOLETE because I raised it against Evolution > 2.28. This surprised me, because this 2.28 is the current shipping > version for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long Term Support). > > Now, you could argue that: > a) the gnome/evo team can't be blamed for Ubuntu shipping an obsolete > version, > b) the gnome/evo team simply doesn't have the resources to maintain > older versions, so it's reasonable to mark older trees unsupported > pretty quickly, and > c) Ubuntu should be responsible for fixing the problem, or upgrade to > v2.30 or whatever > > I think these are good arguments from the point of view of the > developer, but it's not good news for the user, and it's hard for the > average user to distinguish Ubuntu from Gnome in this situation. > > I'm not sure what the solution is, but if 2.28 cannot be maintained it > would still have felt less frustrating and more reasonable if: > a) I'd been told whether the bug was a known bug and has been fixed in > a more recent version of evo. This would potentially give a route for > downstream to port a bug fix, or to contribute a 2.28 patch. > b) If it's not a known bug, it might have made sense to recommend I > report this to Ubuntu rather than Gnome, and why. > > I really like the "long term release" model for my work machine, and > Evolution is critical. It's not a great feeling to know that it's an > obsolete version. > > Just my two cents. > > Matt >
I'd suggest to you to build version 2.32 from git source on your ubuntu LTS. See http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2010-November/msg00004.html and http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2010-November/msg00005.html. If you are not familiar with building software from source, I or maybe a few others on this list could assist you. If you would like to continue to use version 2.28 as I do currently, you may check out the patches I use at http://www.t-mittelstaedt.de/evo-patches-2-28.tar.gz and http://www.t-mittelstaedt.de/evo-eds-patches-2-28.tar.gz for evolution and evolution-data-server, respectively. You need a software called "stacked git", stg, to apply them. It is available with ubuntu. Hope, that helps, -- thomas _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers mailing list evolution-hackers@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers