On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 09:49:41AM -0700, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Thursday, 04 April 2013 at 13:13, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > > On a different note, as a newcomer this reception is quite demotivating. > > Even a (polite) quick email rejecting the patch is better than dead > > silence. The development community doesn't appear especially vibrant. > > A more friendly and welcoming attitude surely wouldn't hurt. > > You're absolutely right. I and the other committers do not spend > enough time on maintenance (we're all spread a lot thinner than we > used to be, I think, and I don't see that changing in the short > term). We know it's a big problem. We need more maintainers (not just > patch writers), but we're doing a terrible job of encouraging people > to be more involved. > > I'd be happy to hear what the mutt-dev hive mind thinks we should do > about this situation.
While I don't have a specific project in mind I'm thinking there must be some existing open source projects that could serve as a model for mutt development. I'd also like to see mutt move to github partially so it would be easier to find other peoples patches that are in branches off the main mutt repo. Having said that I know I have very little time to spend on mutt development. At this point mutt does what I need it to do and is very stable so I don't feel compelled to work on it other than seeing if I could get four patches I wrote accepted into the mutt source base. -- Will Fiveash
