December 18, 2007 – 2:09 pm
Lots of people have been complaining about annoying popups with Evolution saying “Ping failed”, “Name lookup failed” etc.. I started writing a design/interface in the wiki few months back and had a test code which I showed it to a few people at Guadec 07. Since then, I was busy with too many other things [...]
December 13, 2007 – 11:08 am
Andre posted a mail on the hackers list about the state of Evolution docs. The doc team here at Novell uses FrameMaker to manage documentation. So the master copy that we use is frame files which can only be exported to XML and no way to import/sync from xml. So any commits that happen for [...]
December 4, 2007 – 6:35 pm
I just released Evolution 2.21.3 (Yes we synced Evolution with GNOME version) and send a update to the evolution hackers list. Some highlights of that. Till now, we have committed Google Calendar support (Read/Write – You can create meetings) External Editor support for composer – You can use Vim or Emacs for composing Lots of [...]
December 1, 2007 – 12:48 pm
For the past 2 months, either me or my wife or my son was sick and down with cold and flu. My son had recurring 3-4 days of flu for almost three times over the last month and I almost took 2 week vacation to get him better. I was back from my vacation during [...]
September 21, 2007 – 4:21 pm
I released Evolution 2.12 with GNOME 2.20. This is my first release as the maintainer for Evolution. Some interesting things we did for Evolution 2.12 follows Spam Improvements New bogofilter spam plugin Spam plugins (bogofilter/spamassasin) can now learn ham Spams don’t initiate new mail notifications and… UI Improvements Basic contact merging support. Improved search support [...]
August 28, 2007 – 6:18 am
Evolution’s goals (camel) are definitely different from Tinymail’s goal (camel-lite). You definitely can’t substitute each other in all places. Users wont be happy to use a email client that doesn’t even support message threading on a desktop. Philip posted an overview camel-lite onto the evolution-hackers list some time back. Camel-lite has a lot of things [...]
It is really nice to be at GUADEC and see the ever busy GNOME hackers I had my talk first in the morning. Guenther saved me from my Magic Spacebar demo failure. (Caret mode was ON) It went pretty good otherwise. Unfortunately there was no recording as I have heard before. I had a nice [...]
Milan Crha and Øystein Gisnås are doing an awesome patch for Evolution/EDS which improves add / get contact apis from 37 seconds to 0.15 second. This is gonna rock performance of contacts with images. Great work guys!
Evolution got 3 Google summer of code projects. Google Calendar backend for EDS/Evolution by Ebby Wiselyn, mentored by Harish Krishnaswamy Evolution Message Threading Improvements by Tobias Mueller, mentored by Sven Herzberg Evolution/Seahorse Integration by Pınar Yanardağ, mentored by Raphael Slinckx A BIG thanks to all the mentors and students and all the very [...]