[OT] Deafening silence

Michael Miles mmamiga6 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 21 19:28:42 UTC 2010


On 04/21/2010 12:22 PM, Wayne Feick wrote:
> I've finally given up on Evolution and moved back to Thunderbird.
>
> I really wanted Evolution to be a good mail and calendar client, but for
> the last 5 years or so it's always been *almost* there. It was
> calendaring and Palm sync that kept me on it for a long time, and the
> promise that proper Exchange connectivity was coming.
>
> Using an LDAP server consistently causes lockups. The whole UI freezes
> up for extended periods of time. God knows what they're doing, but
> apparently they never learned to separate blocking operations like
> network communication from the UI thread. It often ends up occupying
> 2.5G of resident memory which I can only assume is a memory leak since
> it grows over time.
>
> I've reported bugs over the years, and they seem to fall on deaf ears.
> When they do manage to fix something, invariably something else breaks.
>
> Now that I've moved to a Droid, I've switched over to Google's calendar
> and I'm not looking back.
>
> Wayne.
>
>
>
> On 03/22/2010 01:56 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>    
>> Craig White wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:26 -0800, Russell Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> On Saturday 13 March 2010 02:58:48 pm Craig White wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>
>>>        
>>>> The users and bug reports are, by and large, irrelevant.  Mine certainly have
>>>> been.  As I said, sometimes I did not give enough info, but it also really
>>>> didn't *matter*.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> ----
>>> would like to relate something very funny about bug reporting.
>>>
>>> I reported a bug to Ximian (gnome-evolution) more than 5 years ago and
>>> it just got picked up today...
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271193
>>>
>>> Of course I had completely forgotten about this bug report I made and in
>>> the spirit of better late than never, I suppose I am glad.
>>>
>>> Bug reports are not always irrelevant but sometimes it seems that way.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Seamonkey 2.0.1 fixed a bug I reported in about 1995 or so. Unlike the Linux
>> kernel there's no easy way to put patches out, so fixing a bug becomes a
>> lifetime job.
>>
>>
>>      
>    
I know what you mean there.
I gave up on evolution on day 2 of my Fedora install.

Thunderbird is buggy but what isn't
I have been jpilot for me palm device, seems to work well enough

Have a great day

Michael


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