On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:28:03PM +0200, jpac...@redhat.com wrote: > by this email I'd like to open discussion about the future of the mutt > project.
One thing I would like to point out here is that there IS some semblance of a roadmap... http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ I first would like to comment that I think development and fixing bugs are two different activities. To my best recollection all of the most recent work we've seen has been the latter; we've seen very little actual development for quite a while, AFAIK. At any rate... at the bottom of the page, you'll find links that point to the list of bugs for the 1.6 release to be considered ready, as well as an outdated list of bugs for the next point release (it still points to 1.5.21, which has been released--three years ago). There is also a list of topics under "Brainstorming" which describe less formally the roadmap beyond 1.6. Though, by way of describing the problems intended to be addressed, the pages so linked provide links to mailing list archives which are no longer accessible. To be useful again they should summarize the problem locally, or at least update the links to archives which are still accessible. The larger problem is no one is working on these items... Brendan started working on them, but clearly lacks the time and/or motivation to continue. As David said (and as I and others have pointed out many times in the past), volunteer developers have been repeatedly discouraged from contributing, if not by intent, by the practice of ignoring contributions due to lack of time, or, worse... Is there anyone around who has time and skill who wants to work on any of these roadmap items? I'm somewhat inclined to think that for progress to happen at this point, what will be required is for the maintainers to actively solicit volunteer developers to work on *specific* issues on which they actually want work to progress, and for the maintainers to commit to working with those volunteers to steer the work into something that can ultimately be accepted into Mutt. Without this, I don't see any path to progress... development isn't going to just spontaneously materialize. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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