On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > It does not seem reasonable that I, joe user, who can read a little bit
> > of C should be submitting patches.
>
> Wrong, that is the entire principle of Open Source.
No it most certainly is not.
You have a very flawed understanding of
On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> Which is just dumb since if you fix without sending upstream you will
> have to fix again, and again, and again The concept that not
> submitting a fix saves time is crazy;
Not true.
Most annoying bugs generally get fixed in the next
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 07:14 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> >
> And I don't understand how this became about submitting patches to the
> kernel? It began as someone's diatribe against Evolution because of
> what they thought they saw in their Bugzilla and my pointing out this
> was bogus; E
> > A patch just out-there will be of little value. It very possibly won't
> > apply to future versions or will become a bug if people do apply it.
> > Bug/patch trackers and code repositories exist for very good reason.
> Exactly so.
> But submitting patches to your Distro of choice ought to be f
> > > How many fixed the problem and never published the fix?
> > Not many I bet, at least not for significant bugs. Perhaps trivial one
> > liners.
> Trivial one liner can be difference between working and not working code, so
> simplicity to solve problem doesn't mean that it should not be repo
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 18:54 +1000, Registration Account wrote:
> Has anyone else left Evolution
Not me. Thunderbird and kmail both suck at imap accounts, which are all
I have - even on my local machine. kmail and Thunderbird are both very
very very slow and apparently single threaded when
On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> A patch just out-there will be of little value. It very possibly won't
> apply to future versions or will become a bug if people do apply it.
> Bug/patch trackers and code repositories exist for very good reason.
Exactly so.
But submitting p
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 02:19, John Andersen wrote:
> On Monday 16 April 2007, Rajko M. wrote:
> > How many fixed the problem and never published the fix?
>
> Not many I bet, at least not for significant bugs. Perhaps trivial one
> liners.
Trivial one liner can be difference between working and
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
How many fixed the problem and never published the fix?
I suspect these imagined fixers-but-never-submitters were submitters
at some point in the past who never got so much as a thanky thanky back, and
decided it was not worth it.
Why don't people just
> >> How many fixed the problem and never published the fix?
> > I suspect these imagined fixers-but-never-submitters were submitters
> > at some point in the past who never got so much as a thanky thanky back,
> > and
> > decided it was not worth it.
> Why don't people just put a patch on a webs
John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 16 April 2007, Rajko M. wrote:
How many fixed the problem and never published the fix?
I suspect these imagined fixers-but-never-submitters were submitters
at some point in the past who never got so much as a thanky thanky back, and
decided it was not wo
On Monday 16 April 2007, Rajko M. wrote:
> How many fixed the problem and never published the fix?
Not many I bet, at least not for significant bugs. Perhaps trivial one
liners.
> They use free OS, but don't give back anything, keeping their knowledge for
> another opportunity to cash on it.
On Monday 16 April 2007 06:34, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > The number of people who file bugs and then vanish or just don't
> > > respond to further inquiries is pretty significant. I've even seen
> > > people submit *patches* along with reports, but never surface either
> > > in bugzilla or
> > The number of people who file bugs and then vanish or just don't
> > respond to further inquiries is pretty significant. I've even seen
> > people submit *patches* along with reports, but never surface either in
> > bugzilla or mail lists again. Both weird and frustrating.
> Actually, that l
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> The number of people who file bugs and then vanish or just don't
> respond to further inquiries is pretty significant. I've even seen
> people submit *patches* along with reports, but never surface either in
> bugzilla or mail lists again. Both weird and frustrating.
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>>> Perhaps as in my case other gave up using Evolution.
>>> Has anyone else left Evolution
>>>
>> Nope, still using it and been using it for many years
>>
>
> Same, been using Evolution forever; it is fast, stable, usable, and feature
> complete.
>
> Then suse.de released its RC with a alpha test3 blocker still unresolved
I never run alpha, betas, or RCs.
> Of everyone who replied they were happy to keep evolution could you
> please tell me if you are operating in a commercial work place?
Yes.
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On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 09:29 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote:
> Clark P. Case wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 23:22 -0600, Tom Patton wrote:
> >
> >> Just did my weekly update...Evolution patch to restore the password
> >> database works fine! I'm surprised I haven't seen any chatter about it
> >> on th
> > 4. A sound confidence in that there are so many Evolution bugs that have
> > been outstanding for a very long time 12 months +
> The picture can be wrong if you look only in a number of bugs.
Agree, 115%. Looking at the bugzilla of a project to ascertain
something meaningful about it is almos
Sorry guys,
quote from Suse.DE after asking QA Mgt to advise if Evolution bugs had
correct disposal as I had entered a few bugs and after 2 months no reply
(Paraphrase)
"Sorry I don't get down here to much with bugs that are not critical or
above"
I was basically told Evolution bugs don't get mu
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 08:14 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
> On Saturday 14 April 2007 03:54, Registration Account wrote:
>
> BTW, I'm not using Evolution, but 2 other posts in this thread that say they
> are satisfied with, made me wonder how can happen that Evolution has many
> open bugs, but still w
.
.
> Well there is one "feature" that was removed. I used to be able to right
> click in the message and select "reply to list" but someone removed it.
>
True, but you can use l as an alternative
Rudolf
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On Saturday 14 April 2007 03:54, Registration Account wrote:
> 4. A sound confidence in that there are so many Evolution bugs that have
> been outstanding for a very long time 12 months +
The picture can be wrong if you look only in a number of bugs.
When you look in bug reports, there is a lot
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 08:33 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > Perhaps as in my case other gave up using Evolution.
> > > Has anyone else left Evolution
> > Nope, still using it and been using it for many years
>
> Same, been using Evolution forever; it is fast, stable, usable, and f
> > Perhaps as in my case other gave up using Evolution.
> > Has anyone else left Evolution
> Nope, still using it and been using it for many years
Same, been using Evolution forever; it is fast, stable, usable, and feature
complete.
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On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 18:54 +1000, Registration Account wrote:
> Perhaps as in my case other gave up using Evolution.
>
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> Has anyone else left Evolution
>
Nope, still using it and been using it for many years
Rudolf
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Perhaps as in my case other gave up using Evolution.
For me I had a decision which Email Reader the company (small) was going
to use. I had to base the decision on the following.
1. Reliability
2. Usability
3. Continual Development and support.
4. A sound confidence in that there are so many Evolu
Clark P. Case wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 23:22 -0600, Tom Patton wrote:
>
>> Just did my weekly update...Evolution patch to restore the password
>> database works fine! I'm surprised I haven't seen any chatter about it
>> on the list...perhaps I missed it.
>>
>> Thanks, again!
>>
>> Tom i
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 23:22 -0600, Tom Patton wrote:
> Just did my weekly update...Evolution patch to restore the password
> database works fine! I'm surprised I haven't seen any chatter about it
> on the list...perhaps I missed it.
>
> Thanks, again!
>
> Tom in NM
>
>
Ditto!! Now if we can
Just did my weekly update...Evolution patch to restore the password
database works fine! I'm surprised I haven't seen any chatter about it
on the list...perhaps I missed it.
Thanks, again!
Tom in NM
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