On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 01:06:00PM +0100, Richard Russon wrote: > > I'm going to take a few weeks off from Mutt development. > > Thanks for all your hard work on Mutt.
Agree! > > Five years later > > You've been *maintaining* Mutt, but we've been *developing* NeoMutt. First off I think that's neither a fair nor accurate assesment; under Kevin, Mutt has seen more active development than as under previous maintaners. Secondly I think the problem remains, as it ever has been, that the NeoMutt project has a fundamentally different philosophy than Mutt. Historically NeoMutt has been generally in favor of integrating patches which, while they may have provided desired (by some) functionality, have been rejected by Mutt, because in large part the code was kind of... bad, and typically there wasn't much interest in improving it--just requests to include it as-is. Mutt has been much more conservative about what it will accept, for pretty good reason: Mutt currently has 36 open issues--most of which are feature requests--whereas NeoMutt has ~5x as many, and a number of them look to be serious bugs, at a glance. While conservatism relaxed /somewhat/ under Kevin's leadership, with a mind toward making sure Mutt doesn't fall behind the curve, it seems to me the difference in philosophy is still fundamentally true. That said, I'll admit that I have not tracked NeoMutt development recently. Perhaps it is no longer true. I'll be honest--what I'd really prefer to see is the two projects merge, where "NeoMutt" would be the place were things were tried, fleshed out, and refined so that they could be included in Mutt. Though I suspect by now development has diverged sufficiently to make that impractical. -- 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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