Bug 169240 - Evolution: Missing "Written by" credits information
Summary: Evolution: Missing "Written by" credits information
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evolution
Version: 4
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthew Barnes
QA Contact:
URL: http://peter.ramshacklestudios.com/im...
Whiteboard:
: 181905 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-09-26 01:28 UTC by Peter Gordon
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.2.3-4
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-05-15 20:03:52 UTC
Type: ---
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Description Peter Gordon 2005-09-26 01:28:30 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Epiphany/1.6.5

Description of problem:
The "Written by" tab in the evolutions credits window is empty. The "Documented by" tab seems to be fine.  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evolution-2.2.3-2.fc4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Evolution
2. Click "Help" in the main menu and select "About Evolution..."
3. Click the "Credits" button and go to the "Written by" tab.

Actual Results:  It is empty.

Expected Results:  It should have listed the names of the Evolution hackers.

Additional info:

This also happened on my Gentoo box about two months ago (Gentoo bug #98491[1]), and Leonardo mentioned that the author list needed a patch to fix an invalid character in it. 

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98491

Comment 1 Peter Gordon 2005-10-29 05:36:20 UTC
Not to be rude or anything, but it's been more than a month and still no fix for
this? Not even status from a dev? :( 

(Granted, it's nothing major at all..)

Comment 2 Dave Malcolm 2005-10-31 19:00:41 UTC
Thanks for the bug report (and the reminder)

I've been treating this as a low priority issue, as it seems to work OK in the
latest development builds (2.4.*), and I have plenty of other bugs that I'm
working on, alas.

If you provide me with a patch, I'll put out an update for FC4, but otherwise
I'm not planning to spend time on this.  Thanks for your understanding (and if
you can supply a patch, that'd be great - is it actually fixed in Gentoo: I
couldn't see the patch in that bugzilla entry)

Comment 3 Peter Gordon 2005-11-01 00:57:21 UTC
Thanks, Dave.

According to the Gentoo changelog[1], the patch was applied from upstream in
their 2.2.3-r1 release, so I can only presume it's been fixed in the the 2.4
Evolution.  I'll try it out on my Rawhide install when I get home and let you
know how it goes.

[1]
http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/mail-client/evolution/ChangeLog

Comment 4 Peter Gordon 2005-11-01 00:58:17 UTC
Erm. I just noticed that the patch was there too.

http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/mail-client/evolution/files/evolution-2.2.3-credits.patch

Comment 5 Dave Malcolm 2005-11-01 18:07:19 UTC
Thanks!   I've pushed out a test update for FC4 with that patch:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-November/msg00005.html

Please can you test that update and confirm that it fixes things.

Comment 6 Peter Gordon 2005-11-02 00:10:14 UTC
Seems to be just fine now. Thanks a lot, Dave. :)

Comment 7 n0dalus 2006-02-18 14:31:07 UTC
*** Bug 181905 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Peter Gordon 2006-05-15 20:03:52 UTC
2.2.3-4 was pushed out to FC4 updates some time ago which fixed this. I'm
closing this bug, then. Thanks!


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