On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 09:02 -0600, Peter Van Lone wrote:
> On 2/16/07, Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <snip>
> > While I understand the need for an Exchange client
> > under Linux, I can't help wondering how much this distracts developer
> > attention from the rest of Evo.
>
> >From the perspective of hoping to drive Linux desktop adoption into
> the corporate world, Linux must have an enterprise-ready groupware
> client that can replace Outlook with little or no loss of
> functionality.
>
> Evolution has been touted as just that ... but thus far (IMHO) has
> fallen considerably short -- and is actually pretty weak. Its poor
> showing has cost linux 2 desktop rollouts that I personally was hoping
> to assist with. I'm certain that there are many more.
>
> There are *many* good/strong personal groupware offerings. I'd vote
> for please, distracting the developers from "the rest of EVO" -- so
> that we can finally get the product that we need to compete with
> Outlook/Exchange.
>
> Peter
*Exactly* on the mark. Everyone and their brother in the corporate
world uses Exchange, and that's unlikely to change in the future. I
implore the developers to please focus on making the connector work
reliably. I'll help in any way I can -- though I'm not much of a
programmer.
Just out of curiousity, I searched bugzilla.gnome.org for the number of
bugs logged and closed on each version of the Evolution Exchange
product, plugged them into a spreadsheet, and came up with this:
Release
Bug count
Resolved
Pct. Resolved
1.0.x
71
54
76%
1.1.x
26
17
65%
1.2.x
24
16
67%
1.3.x
26
20
77%
1.4
27
20
74%
1.4.5
23
17
74%
1.4.6
11
6
55%
1.4.7
27
25
93%
1.5
148
101
68%
2.0.0
18
14
78%
2.0.1
28
16
57%
2.0.2
44
33
75%
2.0.3
51
34
67%
2.1
163
106
65%
2.2.x
38
34
89%
2.3.x
179
88
49%
2.4.x
93
82
88%
2.5.x
134
112
84%
2.6.0
100
60
60%
2.7.x
39
18
46%
2.8.x
65
10
15%
2.9.x
190
50
26%
There are a lot of variables not accounted for here, but the dropoff in
closure rate after 2.6.0 is still pretty dramatic.
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