[Evolution] Re: Evolution time zone handling out of date

[Heikki Henriksen]

Great :)

I've been incredibly busy with work for quite a while, so Øystein have
had to take the responsibility for things by himself. I hope this evens
itself out shortly ;)

Cheers

tor, 05.04.2007 kl. 17.07 +0200, skrev 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  - our GNOME and Evo stacks are always out of date, we're not really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. 
>