For the curious:

"Evolution Data Server manages access to the calendar, tasks and addressbook information available for Evolution and other applications. It is a CORBA component which, when activated, allows concurrent access by several client applications to the same data, adding to that notifications of changes, which are signalled to all clients. Its extensible architecture, allows the addition of plugins to manage different kinds of calendar/tasks/addressbook sources, by just writing a shared library, which will be loaded by evolution-data-server on startup."

On my debian testing installation

  $ apt-rdepends -r evolution-data-server
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  evolution-data-server
    Reverse Depends: contacts (0.9-2+b1)
    Reverse Depends: dates (0.4.8-3)
    Reverse Depends: ekiga (3.2.7-5)
    Reverse Depends: evolution (>= 3.2.2-1+b1)
    Reverse Depends: evolution-data-server-dbg (= 3.2.2-3)
    Reverse Depends: evolution-rss (>= 0.2.90~20111111-3)
    Reverse Depends: gbirthday (0.6.5-1)
    Reverse Depends: gnome-core (>= 1:3.0+9)
    Reverse Depends: gnome-phone-manager (0.68-3)
    Reverse Depends: libfolks-eds25 (>= 0.6.9-1)
    Reverse Depends: libjana-ecal0 (0.0.0+git20091215.9ec1da8a-2+b3)
    Reverse Depends: tasks (0.20-1+b1)

I never understood what's so bad about swearing in code comments. It's not something I would do, but different people speak in different ways, so what? This commit seems like a big waste of time to me (except when it replaces variables names with something more descriptive).

Personally, I like William Morgan's IMAP rant[1], from the source of his excellent mail client Sup[2].

And then there's the kernel: http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/

[1]: http://sup.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/lib/sup/imap.rb

[2]: http://sup.rubyforge.org/

I wonder how this codebase would rank in the GitHub emotions analysis [1]

[1]: http://geeksta.net/geeklog/exploring-expressions-emotions-gi...

Wow, these comments don't inspire much confidence in evolution even after they are cleaned up.

Almost all big, gronky, shipped software looks like that in places, especially if it relies heavily on external libs or services.

At least the swearing is honest.