On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:11:26AM -0400, Dimi Paun wrote:
This is pretty scary. Switching people off email clients like this is a big problem. People get really attached to their MUAs for lots of reasons, not in the least being that their mail archives can't be easily moved from client to client.
It won't be the first time we dumped an email client (we've dropped nmh, exmh, elm, ...) before.
Guys, Red Hat has been pushing Evo for a _long_ time now. It has to stay behind their choices, not force millions of users to switch at a drop of a hat (pun intended :)).
The question is whether Evolution is fixable in a sane timescale and whether it is fit to ship in FC5. I would put a 50/50 bet on a serious security flaw in evolution during FC5. Now how are we going to fix it ?
without thinking a bit about consequences. How can enterprises trust you with any technological guidance/decision when you are willing to do things that would cost them untold millions without even blinking?
This is Fedora. Its a development project to produce leading edge stuff. It isn't a business product. Even if a future Red Hat Enterprise product dropped Evolutuion, or evolution imploded fatally upstream as appears quite possible there is already a commitment to support it on the existing enterprise product and if it was considered for dropping in a future product that would be the kind of thing that had a long long notice period and be subject to user views.
Fedora we can do things that are technically right, or throw the ideas around for discussion and a chance to ask "what are the alternatives". RHEL has many other constraints.
Alan