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Evolution 1.5 (unstable) released

Submitted by stro on Mon, 2003-12-08 15:27. Evolution

JP Rosevear wrote:
As per our Grand Plan (TM) Evolution 1.5 has been released in time for the GNOME 2.5.1 development release. Snapshots are also available through Red Carpet for 5 platforms including SuSE 9 and RedHat 9.

Be sure to check out the Evolution code blog/blog archives to see all of the cool stuff that is being done to make Evolution rock even harder!

Download the following:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evolution/1.5/evolution-1.5.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtkhtml/3.1/gtkhtml-3.1.4.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gal/2.1/gal-2.1.1.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evolution-data-server/0.0/evolution-data-server-0.0.3.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.1/libsoup-2.1.2.tar.gz

Upgrade Notes:
Evolution 1.5 can be installed at the same time as 1.4.x. However note
that there are still some bugs migrating data from 1.4.x to 1.5 and that
1.5 stores its information in ~/.evolution rather than ~/evolution/ so
that if you add new info in 1.5 in will not show up in 1.4.x.

What Has Changed:
Evolution 1.5 has fixed some major architectural issues and sees the
splitting out of the addressbook, calendar and task data access into a
separate library for other projects to use. Shell components are now
much more simplified.

We have also untangled the GUI quite a bit making the components (mail,
tasks, etc) more individual and improving the usage experience for the
user.

Reporting Bugs

The main purpose of this release is, of course, to gather as much
testing as possible from users. Your help in testing and submitting bugs
as you find them is highly appreciated.

If Evolution 1.5 crashes, please take the time to submit the bug using
Bug Buddy, trying to fill in as much detail as you can regarding the
circumstances that lead to the crash.

If, on the other hand, you find a problem in the behavior or the
appearance of the application, please go to http://bugzilla.ximian.com/
to use our Bugzilla interface to report the bug.

You can also check if your bug has been reported before by using the
search functionality of Bugzilla.

More information is available at the project website:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution

Re: Evolution 1.5 (unstable) released

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2003-12-10 08:31.

I'm the original poster. Like everyone else, my time and energy are more limited than my ideas. The beauty of open source is that it allows a relatively small number of people to create and distribute software that can be used by the entire world. Even the most prolific hackers are using far more free software than they'll ever write. This system survives on its abilitiy to allow people to contribute and freely distribute what they care about most, while using and benefitting from everyone else's work at the same time.

I made the point about finding it hard to believe that there's no spam filter for Evolution because I do find it hard to believe. Spam is a big deal these days and Evolution is a very well written application with an excellent UI. Given the number of people who use Evolution and who dislike spam (everyone!), it's surprising that someone hasn't written an integrated solution already.

That being said, I'm starting work on an open source project to create voter information web site software which will enable people to find out when their elections are, who's running and what they stand for. Sort of a one stop shopping place for election information. I'm doing this as a project for school, so I have to write the main part of the system myself, but I will be looking for volunteers to help do the data entry for the location finder portion of the software and to find sponsors who can get the software into use in time for the 2004 elections. If you'd like to help, send me an e-mail address and we'll keep in touch.

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