Move Evolution to Extras?

Lyvim Xaphir knightmerc at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 29 18:07:46 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 16:28 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 10:09:52AM -0500, Saikat Guha wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 13:48 +0000, Leo wrote:
> > > Evolution is useless for most users now.
> > 
> > On Fedora-devel, Evolution is responsible for 78% of the emails.
> > The next closest is Sylpheed with 9%
> 
> Not all mailer use X-Mailer. Others use User-Agent. With the following:
>  grep -h '^\(User-Agent\|X-Mailer\)' fedora-devel-list -r | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's;/.*;;' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
> 
> 
> I get (for the mail saved in my fedora-devel-list mailbox, which may be biased):
> 
>       1 AT&T
>       1 Mulberry
>       1 Null
>       1 SnapperMail
>       1 Wanderlust
>       2 Apple
>       2 http:
>       2 %p!0,0!
>       2 Pan
>       4 Loom
>       5 Balsa
>       5 Internet
>       7 VM
>       8 MH-E
>      10 Mail
>      16 KNode
>      16 Mew
>      20 SquirrelMail
>      23 Sylpheed-Claws
>      32 Gnus
>      43 Sylpheed
>      49 KMail
>      91 Ximian
>     134 Mozilla
>     148 Thunderbird
>     295 Mutt
>     330 Evolution
> 
> There still seems to be about 200 mails not counted.
> Evolution is still first, but with a lower share. Maybe Ximian is also evolution,
> though. This is not very relevant, though, since mutt is second, this is 
> certainly biased numbers.

Yes, since we are probably not considering a majority of users that used
Evo to get integrated into M$ networks, thus encroaching into M$
territory.  Even taking your statements above into consideration, I did
a check on the kernel mailing list; Evo was number two right behind
Mutt.

--LX





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