Evolution 2.28.0 released!!
Evolution team is happy and proud to announce the evolution 2.28.0 release. To give an overview of what the release provides,
• Google calendar will be available through Caldav interface by default
• Configurable date formats
• Selecting local ICal files as calendar sources
• Support for unmatched vfolder and creating vfolder using vfolders is added back.
• GroupWise conversation threading
• GroupWise meeting retract/resend
• Tons of bug fixes
As many would know already, we branched evolution early in order to get rid of bonobo. Am happy to see this from mbarnes!
We have already started working on the tasks identified for the 2.30. Here is the summary of those tasks,
• Bonobo less Evolution
• EDS DBus port
• Exchange MAPI Improvements
• Mailer async operations (with IMAPX)
• GNOME 3.0 Cleanup
• Migrate go-evolution wiki contents to lgo and gnome.org/projects/evolution
• Quick steps for writing evolution plugins
• Disk summary regressions on vfolder
If you would like to get involved in any of the above work or have some new ideas, we would be happy to guide. We need more people getting involved in Evolution development!
Some screen shots of the new features added,
Configurable date formats
Allow Local Ical files to be added as calendar sources
This is a special release for myself and mbarnes as we have taken the responsibility of maintainer-ship from this release.
Thanks to all the users, testers, developers, translators, bug masters, distributors and everyone involved in the project.
new twitter account
My old account was suspended as it was hacked and spammed. Created a new one after waiting for it to be re-activated,
http://twitter.com/chenthill
Good that twitter allowed me to update my email id in old account, so I could use my old email id for the new account. Liked the way twitter handles captcha now. I did not have to re-enter the new words again if there was an error while creating the account.
Have used a better password for the new account, lets see how far its secure 
Whats cooking in evolution?
There are plenty of interesting works going on currently for evolution 2.28,
- eds-dbus port for address-book (Ross)
- calendar cache rewrite to get rid of the xml based cache (Chen)
- GSoc eds calendar memory optimization patches to be merged (Stanislav)
- Caldav backend replacing Google calendar backend for accessing google calendars (Milan Crha)
- A lot of improvements in evolution-mapi connector for exchange 2007 (hear more from Johnny)
We will be getting all the above for evolution 2.27.5.. So be ready for them!!
We are also planning to branch evolution 2.27.x a bit early once the freezes start (around july 27) to have the following work merged soon and to get more testing for evolution 3.0,
- Kill bonobo from evolution (Matthew Barnes)
- eds-dbus port for calendar (Ross)
Some more under radar for evolution 3.0,
- IMAP IDLE support
- IMAPX
- Asyncronous operations in mailer
- Removing ETable from mailer
There are a lot more people behind doing useful contributions to evolution, though I have mentioned only some names above.. Watch the NEWS file updates to know all of them
GUADEC!
I had to opt out of GUADEC due to personal reasons. But there are three guys from evolution team Srini (board director ), Akhil and Bharath right now at Gran canaria . You can catch them for any evolution queries
Akhil should love meeting Ara and Eitan and discuss ldtp stuffs!
oneness meditation at oneness temple
Myself and mom were there for the meditation session on 26th and it was extremely nice. The temple now have Air conditioner so we never had to worry about heat. The meditation session included performing some mudras as well. The transportation was good and food arrangements were planned properly. We never had to be in a queue and food also tasted like home food. On the whole, whether to go there for meditation or not, it is a good place to visit for new people.
News -
Oneness meditation has started at oneness temple starting April 26th. People who are interested to meditate or even who wish to visit and see the Asia’s largest pillar-less temple can go there and meditate between morning 10-11 Am or evening 4-5 Pm. If anyone plans to stay there and enjoy the environment for few days, rooms can be booked. AC rooms, normal ones and dormitories are available, contact Ms(or Mrs., I don know 
) Kavithaji – 044-65150501 or support@onenessindia.org for specific details . The meditation sessions are Free, there is no entrance fee. Accommodations obviously would have some maintenance charges.
Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
The last lecture from Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Professor. My cousin thiagu pointed me to a youtube video and asked me to watch it. I just loved watching this video, every moment in this video is filled with fun and insights. The speech is kept very simple for anyone to understand. I felt more attached as my father was also a professor like randy.
I would suggest this one of the MUST watch videos. I have downloaded this video and have it on my disk if someone wants to scp it
Coincidentally am hearing a lot about dreams nowadays, so don blame me
Market share for an opensource software ?
We were asked by one of the members in our company, how much is the market share for the open-source software which we work on, Evolution. This was the second time, same question appeared when I was present. As Evolution is the default mail client in GNOME and shipped in many major distros like OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian etc., we said it should high enough.
But how does one estimate the market share for an opensource software ? Any statisticians who are putting those data somewhere for some popular softwares like firefox, evolution, banshee, open-office etc. after survey?
accessing websites using embedded mono
I have embedded mono into my app (evolution-mono-providers) where I was trying to authenticate to google calendar. Though I had the certificates imported using mozroots, access to website failed. But then I was able to authenticate through a standalone mono program.
After some debugging with ankit, posted the query on the mono-devel mailing list. Robert’s quick response helped me solve the issue Calling mono_jit_exec with the assembly compiled as an executable fixes the issue. So one has to call mono_jit_exec for certain defaults to be set correctly in the embedded environment.
Here is the mail thread http://go-mono.com/forums/#nabble-to22617142|a22666273 .
Thanks a lot, ankit and Robert!
GObject skeleton generators
Just searched for the skeleton generators for GObject. Got couple of useful links,
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2003
http://burtonini.com/cgi/gobject.py
Can we mention these links at http://live.gnome.org/DeveloperUtilities ?
