On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 03:40:12PM +0200, jpac...@redhat.com wrote: > Let me propose a fairly minor change in the development process. > you are proposing a fork on mutt's own infrastructure. i'm not quite sure whether you are incredibly naive or incredibly sneaky. ;)
nope, what it takes to make a project alive is a leader: somebody with the competence and time to deliver results. and in the case of reviving a stale project, it must also be somebody with the balls and inclination to push beyond the incredible stop power (be it passive or active) found in the existing (non-)maintainer community. an additional problem with mutt (like most other software) is that it isn't particularly well written - the mailbox driver model is a mess, and a search for a MVC pattern (c.f. the idea to tack another UI on it) is futile. that means that anyone who'd want to make major functionality improvements would have to start with substantial refactoring. just starting your own project is soooo much more fun, especially considering the interaction with the community ... good luck anyway. ;) p.s.: i for one would immediately ditch mutt if i found a similarly powerful and stable gui MUA where keyboard navigation is the primary focus and not an afterthought (guis try to be non-modal, which means that the relevant pane will easily lose focus for any number of reasons, which completely screws up fast navigation). if somebody has suggestions ... ;)
