Re: the mutt development vacuum

2013-04-08 Thread David Champion
* On 09 Apr 2013, Petr Pisar wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 03:31:19PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > As for the comment regarding the Mutt fork: in principle that's great, > > but in practice IMO forks are bad: They divide the effort, and cause > > problems potentially for both (or all) projec

Re: the mutt development vacuum

2013-04-08 Thread Petr Pisar
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 03:31:19PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > As for the comment regarding the Mutt fork: in principle that's great, > but in practice IMO forks are bad: They divide the effort, and cause > problems potentially for both (or all) projects involved, trying to > track important chan

Re: [Mutt] #2842: reply_regexp set in muttrc and during mutt session have different effects

2013-04-08 Thread Mutt
#2842: reply_regexp set in muttrc and during mutt session have different effects -+-- Reporter: gautam@…| Owner: mutt-dev Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: mutt|

Re: the mutt development vacuum

2013-04-08 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Kyle Wheeler [04-08-13 16:57]: > On Monday, April 8 at 03:31 PM, quoth Derek Martin: > >It's much easier to complain when something bugs you than it is to > >remember to express appreciation when everything is fine... > > You know, that's an excellent point, and a good reminder. So: > > I wou

Re: the mutt development vacuum

2013-04-08 Thread Kyle Wheeler
On Monday, April 8 at 03:31 PM, quoth Derek Martin: It's much easier to complain when something bugs you than it is to remember to express appreciation when everything is fine... You know, that's an excellent point, and a good reminder. So: I would like to profess that my copy of mutt has bee

Re: the mutt development vacuum

2013-04-08 Thread Derek Martin
Brendand, On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 09:49:41AM -0700, Brendan Cully wrote: > 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

Re: the mutt development vacuum

2013-04-08 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
Michael Elkins wrote: > The bug reporting system of full of open issues: > > http://dev.mutt.org/trac/report/1 > > The problem is that it isn't very much fun to fix bugs, but writing > a new feature that you would like is, so the few people who do > submit patches tend to focus on that. Alright,

Re: the mutt development vacuum

2013-04-08 Thread Michael Elkins
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 01:37:22PM -0500, Will Fiveash wrote: It's never been clear to me who has the authorization to fix bugs or how one acquires that authorization. All you need to do is register for an account: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/register So far as I know, there are not special perm

Re: the mutt development vacuum

2013-04-08 Thread Will Fiveash
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 04:19:03PM +, Michael Elkins wrote: > > The bug reporting system of full of open issues: > > http://dev.mutt.org/trac/report/1 > > The problem is that it isn't very much fun to fix bugs, but writing a new > feature that you would like is, so the few people who do subm

Re: the mutt development vacuum

2013-04-08 Thread Michael Elkins
On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 03:04:16PM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote: Or, as Mutt is maintained in a Mercurial repo, to bitbucket. Brendan mirrors the main repository to bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/mutt/mutt

Re: the mutt development vacuum

2013-04-08 Thread Michael Elkins
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 12:35:13PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: I understand. More patches just means more work. The people who know how to do things are too busy to do them, none-the-less mentor new people. There certainly isn't an easy solution to this problem. I would encourage mutt dev