Evolution
Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality.
Contents
Online Support
First consult the Evolution Manual.
The evolution-list mailing list is the best place to seek further assistance with using Evolution, for example when you have problems.
Subscribe here!The evolution-hackers mailing list is for developer discussions. The topics can get pretty technical.
Subscribe here!Many Evolution developers and users can also be found on IRC (irc.gimp.org), channel #evolution.
Get the Source Code
The Evolution project releases its source code as tarball files, from which Free Software distributors can create easily-installable binary packages for users.
Most likely your Free Software distribution (Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu, etc.) already provides binary packages for Evolution. The following links are only for the source code.
The latest stable release tarballs were uploaded on May 12, 2014:
evolution-ews-3.12.2.tar.xz (NEWS) (optional)
evolution-mapi-3.12.2.tar.xz (NEWS) (deprecated)
The latest development snapshot tarballs were uploaded on April 28, 2014:
evolution-ews-3.13.1.tar.xz (NEWS) (optional)
evolution-mapi-3.13.1.tar.xz (NEWS) (deprecated)
Or you can clone the source code repositories with git:
git clone git://git.gnome.org/evolution
git clone git://git.gnome.org/evolution-data-server
git clone git://git.gnome.org/evolution-ews (optional)
git clone git://git.gnome.org/evolution-mapi (deprecated)
You can also view the schedule of upcoming releases.
Developer Blogs
Get a peek at some of the changes coming up in the next release.
Developer Resources
See all the easy-to-fix bugs in Bugzilla
Bugzilla Topics (used in "Status Whiteboard" entry)
Extensions (gradually replacing EPlugin)
Reference Manuals
Camel (for email)
(more to come...)
The following materials have aged. Some parts are no longer accurate and need a rewrite.
Evolution-EWS (Exchange Web Services)
Exchange Web Services operations feature's parity matrix with /EWS (evolution-ews)
Feature Planning
People
Maintainers
- Milan Crha (mcrha)
FabianoFidencio (fidencio)
User Documentation
AndreKlapper (andre)
IRC nick names in brackets.