Evangelism - Evolution
Speaking about bugs, I would appreciate it if people who use GNOME's Evolution to read mail would subscribe for bug 490241 in GNOME's bugzilla (link below) which I'm trying to promote as a comprehensive list of BiDi editing problems in Evolution. As everyone who ever tried writing Hebrew email (and possibly Arabic also) in Evolution knows, anything other then a few words is very annoying to write as almost any kind of text editing you want to do is messed up horribly in Evolution's mail composer. The ticket above received some notice as one of the developers assigned the correct keyword to the ticket, but otherwise it got no attention what so ever, and I would really like to promote BiDi awareness in Evolution - as currently there is none. If you'd like to help the cause, it easy - just register to GNOME bugzilla (standard procedure with email confirmation) and CC yourself on this bug. If you'd like to comment with your own horror stories go ahead, but please no me too comments - I don't want to SPAM the developers, just get more awareness (I think that the emails that get auto-CCed according to product and component do not receive notification on adding/removing CCs). Direct link to the bug report: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490241 Thanks in advance. -- Oded = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Evangelism - Evolution
On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 14:32 +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: Speaking about bugs, I would appreciate it if people who use GNOME's Evolution to read mail would subscribe for bug 490241 in GNOME's bugzilla (link below) which I'm trying to promote as a comprehensive list of BiDi editing problems in Evolution. As everyone who ever tried writing Hebrew email (and possibly Arabic also) in Evolution knows, anything other then a few words is very annoying to write as almost any kind of text editing you want to do is messed up horribly in Evolution's mail composer. The ticket above received some notice as one of the developers assigned the correct keyword to the ticket, but otherwise it got no attention what so ever, and I would really like to promote BiDi awareness in Evolution - as currently there is none. If you'd like to help the cause, it easy - just register to GNOME bugzilla (standard procedure with email confirmation) and CC yourself on this bug. If you'd like to comment with your own horror stories go ahead, but please no me too comments - I don't want to SPAM the developers, just get more awareness (I think that the emails that get auto-CCed according to product and component do not receive notification on adding/removing CCs). Direct link to the bug report: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490241 Thanks in advance. Just my 0.02, but you do know that a kitten dies every time someone posts a -long- multi-bug-report, right? I'm not the maintainer I nearly poked my eye out half way through the description - you've got at least 6 different bug reports all gobbled into a single BZ#. I'd suggest you create a number --short-- bug-reports and close the original one. (Even if it seems that they all stem from a single bug) - Gilboa = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Evangelism - Evolution
On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 15:01 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 14:32 +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: Speaking about bugs, I would appreciate it if people who use GNOME's Evolution to read mail would subscribe for bug 490241 in GNOME's bugzilla (link below) which I'm trying to promote as a comprehensive list of BiDi editing problems in Evolution. Just my 0.02, but you do know that a kitten dies every time someone posts a -long- multi-bug-report, right? I'd suggest you create a number --short-- bug-reports and close the original one. (Even if it seems that they all stem from a single bug) Of course if a developer would comment on the bug to that effect I would do that, but generally I think there are advantages to have a ticket that tracks the state of some specific problem, even if it is later divided into several different tickets each with its own fix - for example see the infamous Mozilla MNG bug: is a good place to rally support for an issue. Do you think it's a better idea to have a ticket for BiDi problems in Evolution that will be dependent on all BiDi related bugs? There are several others besides said ticket, some even that other people have reported ;). -- Oded = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Evangelism - Evolution
* On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 17:25 +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 15:01 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 14:32 +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: Speaking about bugs, I would appreciate it if people who use GNOME's Evolution to read mail would subscribe for bug 490241 in GNOME's bugzilla (link below) which I'm trying to promote as a comprehensive list of BiDi editing problems in Evolution. Just my 0.02, but you do know that a kitten dies every time someone posts a -long- multi-bug-report, right? I'd suggest you create a number --short-- bug-reports and close the original one. (Even if it seems that they all stem from a single bug) Of course if a developer would comment on the bug to that effect I would do that, but generally I think there are advantages to have a ticket that tracks the state of some specific problem, even if it is later divided into several different tickets each with its own fix - for example see the infamous Mozilla MNG bug: is a good place to rally support for an issue. Do you think it's a better idea to have a ticket for BiDi problems in Evolution that will be dependent on all BiDi related bugs? There are several others besides said ticket, some even that other people have reported ;). In general, I (as a developer) rather get a number of small bug reports, with a top-level BIDI problems in evolution blocker bug that depends on all the small ones. Having short bug report with easy to follow test-cases makes it easier for the maintainer to track individual issues. - Gilboa = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
