On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 10:05 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > But man this is kind of the same problem of the known kernel IO problem > > that also I reported and nobody not much people trust just because they > > didn't see any problem. > Because one person reporting problems is not usually credible - it's > indicative of a misconfiguration or an issue elsewhere. Yes, it > sometimes is a problem, and given an infinite amount of resources all > such things would be investigated - but with limited (very limited) > resources, the developers have to concentrate on the things that have > the most impact for the most people.
AND, it is important to note, that LINUX [and related applications] is used very successfully in a myriad of situations by a whole lot of people. Most low-level bugs at this point in time are extremely narrow, it is unreasonable to expect the world to jump on them when they harm 0.0001% of the universe. > > The same occurs in evolution. Just because it works well for you it does > > not mean it's working well. > > I can tell you that performance and usability degraded over time. > but not for most people. My experience is that Evolution has become > more stable and more usable over the last few releases. And yes, it has > become faster and more responsive. Exactly, it has gotten faster and MUCH more stable. Some component may have broken, or something degraded, but "Evolution" has done neither. > To be honest most of the grouching about the stability and speed of Evo > seems to be coming from Ubuntu users Or people with *unbelievably* ancient versions. Every time I see someone complaining about 2.32 or even 2.28... my jaw drops. I just don't get it - why do that to yourself? > - that may be because there are > just more users of Ubuntu than other distros; or it could be something > that the Ubuntu packagers have done to Evo; or it could be some > interaction of Evo with other libraries that Ubuntu have modified. > That's not to say that there aren't reported problems with other > distros, but they don't seem to make Evo unusable like it reportedly > does on Ubuntu. They [Ubuntu] have had some very lemony releases; so everyone gets to experience the long-tail of those versions. > File bugs about it. That's the only way the developers can get a view > on systemic problems and can spot patterns. And bugs do get fixed. My latest bug report was resolved in 48 hours. > It's also very helpful if when you do submit a bug following a posting > to this list, that you tell us the bug ID - at least then if some one > searches the list archives (because we ALL do that before posting, don't > we) they can at least see if the problem has been fixed, or can add a > comment to the bug. And perhaps people on the list can follow the bug or add something to it. I've done that several times. > Finally, the developers make advances and improvements and bug fixes in > the current version and only bug fixes in the previous version - so it > is always worthwhile running the most up to date version before > criticizing things too much. Yes. 3.6.x is a major release back. 3.8.x *does* fix some performance issues, especially related to flaky connections. Or it certainly seems that way to me. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
