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

[Evolution-hackers] Retiring evolution-exchange

2012-05-24 Thread Matthew Barnes
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 for one product is getting ridiculous. Therefore I think it's tim