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Evolution in 11.1
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As we get ready for the 11.1 release, I have been upgrading my machines to 11.1 so that I have the same desktop experience as all the people who will be installing openSUSE 11.1 — either as their first experience with openSUSE or their first experience with Linux in general.
One of the things I do with every new release I try out is to check various mail clients and see how (or if) they’ve improved.
Last time I tried Evolution with Novell’s Groupwise, I was less than happy with its performance and stopped using Evo after a short while.
I set up Evolution in 11.1 with my Groupwise account this time around, and I’ve got to say — so far, it’s really performing well. After the 11.1 dust settles, I hope I’ll have a bit more time to write up some more lengthy comments about Evolution, but if you haven’t tried Evolution in a while take it for a test drive in 11.1.
No wonder Evolution plain sucks. It has not been actively developed for the last 4 or so years. Go see their bug tracker if you want proof. That project is practically dead and unmaintained – even more undeveloped.
Thunderbird’s development is even alive. And seems getting faster and faster since Mozilla officially dropped it and Mozilla Messaging took it.
It is an absolutely baseless claim. If I had to list the improvements for evolution on the last four years, this page will be insufficient. To just highlight the top three things:
1) Creation of evolution-data-server, which is used by calendar applet, conduits and so many other desktop applications
2) sqlite based summary for mails
3) Numerous plugins – templates , attachment reminder, mono plugins. New providers: GroupWise, MAPI based native exchange connectivity, Google calendar.
Look at ohloh or some such statistics. The number of bugs getting fixed per release, the number of contributors per release are increasing manifold. Check who tops the list of bug fixers and patch reviewers for last two years statistics in Gnome bugzilla.
Afterall, It is an opensource project and in addition to complaining, why don’t you try improving it ? Your patches are welcomed.
I’m not sure where the assumption that Evolution is dead came from. Evolution was one of the main things that attracted me to Linux in the first place and with each new release of openSUSE, comes an even better version of Evolution. There is a full team supporting Evolution, and there is an excellent community beyond the core team that supports it via the #evolution IRC channel on the gimpnet network.
There is also the http://www.go-evo.org website.
I also know for a fact that the team actively engages with the community to find ways to continually innovate and improve Evolution. Personally, I’m excited to see the new Mail Template feature implemented. This is the product of the team engaging with folks like me in the community to get ideas. I filed the idea and the Evo team ran with it and now it’s in place. Thank you Evo team for a great job.
I have been improving the GroupWise provider and the biggest complaint from the users is the inability to see threading headers, which I am not getting from the server. I have been trying to improve it. If you have any issues with evo (and groupwise connectivity), ping us in #opensuse-gnome and we can get things improved sooner.
Awesome. Thanks!
I like Evolution, but I really hope it will soon support MAPI with Exchange 2007 so that I could use it when i’m at work.
Evolution not being actively developed nor maintained is not really true. I agree with Sankar. I have been using Evolution practically since I started to use Linux (~6 years), and improvements are really evident.
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