Re: Request for Freeze Break - Evolution

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Sankar P <psankar novell com> wrote:
>  On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 19:57 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
>  > We're one week away from hard code freeze and have no releases between
>  > now and the final version (well, one coming out on Wednesday but it
>  > may be too late to get the approvals and the new evolution out for
>  > that one)...and you want to break the last three freezes?
>
>  The feature was implemented long back as a plugin.
>
>  But the problem with that was:
>
>  - User has to set an environment variable $EDITOR to use this plugin.
>
>  - This was not documented anywhere and when the user selects a menu
>  item, it was not reporting any error message also.
>
>  The patch that I have attached at the bug provides GUI options via the
>  plugin configure screen as attached in my previous mail.
>
>  The code to read contents of a file and set it in the composer is been
>  around for a long time.
>
>  String and document changes have to be done. Radhika has agreed to
>  document this before the release.
>
>  My worry on why this has to go through is : Because, the user will not
>  know what is happening. And some distros ship experimental plugins as
>  well.
>
>  In case this is not approved, should the mentioning of this be dropped
>  from Release Notes or from anywhere ?

Okay, so the code does have a fair amount of testing; I'm still uneasy
about it, but it does sound like it might be the lesser of two evils.
I'll give one of 2 approvals.