[Evolution] Re: Evolution time zone handling out of date

[Loïc Minier]

        Hi,

 Oystein, Heikki, please welcome Bdale and Keith (bdale at d.o,
 keithp at d.o), two hot DDs I've just added to pkg-evolution;  I hope you
 have a bottle of Champagne in the fridge and some flowers to throw at
 them!

 During an email exchange with Bdale (quoted below), two old problems
 came up:
 - our GNOME and Evo stacks are always out of date, we're not really
   tracking "stable" releases
 - I personally don't use Evolution, so I can not produce terribly good
   uploads, as recent e-d-s experience shows

 The out-of-dateness is partly due to the current release process, but I
 also think we are a bit lacking man power from time to time as
 packaging Evolution can be really time consuming.

 I've added Bdale and Keith to the pkg-evolution Alioth project, and I
 invite them to join the pkg-evolution-maintainers list.  They are DDs,
 hence have uploads rights, but are also very experienced DDs.  On top
 of this, they use Evolution's "corporate" features a _lot_, daily.

 I've setup a new pkg-evolution-commits list to help everybody work
 together, but you can also subscribe to the PTS for commits.

 @Bdale + Keith: typical "svn-buildpackage" SVN tree, with one branch
 per dist.

 I've also introduced tags recently, please "svn-buildpackage
 --svn-tag-only" after your final commit before upload.


 I've uploaded and tagged the last GNOME 2.16 releases of evolution,
 evolution-data-server, and evolution-exchange today.  The current
 status is that GNOME 2.18 is making its way in experimental,
 gtkhtml3.14 was created as a separate source due to incompatible API
 changes until gnucash is converted and uploaded to NEW.  Evolution-*
 remain to be prepared, but will probably need gtkhtml3.14.  Riccardo
 Setti (giskard at d.o) prepared diffs for Evo 2.10 and EDS 1.10, but
 please take the time to proof read them from A to Z as I think the
 changes are complex:
19:09 <@giskard> http://people.debian.org/~giskard/evolution_new_upstream.patch
19:09 <@giskard> http://people.debian.org/~giskard/eds_new_upstream.patch

 In case you need gtkhtml3.14 binaries:
 <http://people.dooz.org/~lool/debian/gtkhtml3.14/3.14.0-1/experimental-pbuilder/>


 Please contact me or hop in #gnome-debian on GIMPNet (irc.gimp.org) if
 you have any technical question or if you need to coordinate major
 changes wit h the GNOME Team.


   Bye,

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> >  BTW, evolution is handled by a separate "team" of two NMs and me as the
> >  uploader DD -- but I don't use evolution!
> >    If you're interested in helping, I can add you to the alioth project;
> >  typical svn-buildpackage maintenance.  Please let me know, and I shall
> >  introduce you to our current maintainers immediately.
> 
> I really don't have time to do much, but if you want to add me to the
> alioth project and make introductions, go for it!  I am at least a very
> serious user of evolution these days.  Until/unless I find something
> that works better for me, I'll try to find ways to help.
> 
> I will CC Keith Packard, since he is also using evolution and he and I
> often talk to each other about the various issues we're struggling
> with. 

-- 
Loïc Minier