From: Ettore Perazzoli <ettore@ximian.com> To: gnome-hackers@gnome.org, gnome-list@gnome.org Subject: Evolution wants you! Date: 02 Aug 2001 22:02:34 -0400 Cc: evolution@ximian.com, evolution-hackers@ximian.com Hello GNOMErs, As you may have noticed already, Evolution has finally reached, after over 22 months of development, Beta (i.e. feature-frozen) status. The project is in great shape right now. With almost 700k lines of code and 14 full-time developers, we are building one of the most advanced GNOME applications ever, as well as one of the biggest end-user free software efforts to date. It is also getting pretty stable and usable; many people are using it for their day-to-day work, and we have gained many devotees from the rows of users of other mail applications. We Evolution hackers are extremely proud of what we have achieved so far, and we hope we are keeping up with the expectations of the whole GNOME community in providing what we believe is the most advanced free groupware application available today. Evolution features a full mailer with IMAP, POP, S/IMAP, message indexing, PGP, and HTML support. The Evolution calendar and addressbook sync with PalmOS devices, support LDAP, vCard, iCal and vCal and are fully integrated with the mailer. You can even schedule appointments with Outlook clients. Evolution is also based on the Bonobo component model and is extremely flexible and extensible. But of course, we are not quite done yet. A few weeks of intense hacking and bug smashing are ahead of us, in order to meet our goal of deploying a 1.0 release that is polished and completely crash-free. THE SCHEDULE ------------ Here is the current schedule for 1.0: * Beta 2, Aug 2nd [We are here :-)] * Beta 3, Aug 14th, Performance and UI Freeze. * Beta 4, Sep 5th * Release Candidate 1, Sep 18th * Final 1.0 Release, October 1st HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE ---------------------- We would like to encourage the whole GNOME community to start playing with Evolution right now, and contribute to the effort by providing testing, bug reports and, why not, fixes. We believe Evolution will play an important role in making the GNOME platform more and more popular. Here is a bunch of links to help you out: * Evolution web page: http://www.ximian.com/apps/evolution.php3 * For Ximian GNOME users, the latest Evolution Beta release is always available through Red Carpet in the "Ximian Preview" and "Evolution Snapshot" channels. * If you don't have Ximian GNOME installed, you can download the latest GtkHTML, GAL and Evolution tarballs from ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable, or ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/source/evolution . And of course, all the code is also available from the GNOME CVS (modules gal, gtkhtml and evolution). * Mailing lists: evolution@ximian.com and evolution-hackers@ximian.com. Send the usual `subscribe' message to evolution-request@ximian.com or evolution-hackers-request@ximian.com to subscribe. * The FAQ is located at http://www.ximian.com/apps/evolution-faq.html * Our Bugzilla-based bug tracking system is located at http://bugzilla.ximian.com. Please report all the bugs there, and they'll be taken good care of. Notice you can also use Bug-Buddy to submit bugs into the bug tracker; this is useful for quickly reporting crashes or sending bug reports when you are off-line. * Every week on Thursday, approximately from 9am to 9pm EST, bug days take place on #evobugs on irc.gnome.org. This is a good opportunity to talk to the developers, help them to figure out bugs they cannot reproduce, etc. Thank you all! We are looking forward to your feedback. -- Ettore _______________________________________________ gnome-hackers mailing list gnome-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-hackers