Re: The future of mutt...

2013-11-15 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
Hello again, I'd like to thank you everybody who read and participated in this discussion. I really appreciate the changes which emerged in the meantime and therefore I'm closing this discussion. I'm certain the project will stay alive and vital even if the interest for such "low-level" MUAs has

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-11-15 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
Hi there, > no, actually, i was referring to the first part of my first sentence in > that paragraph. of course there is a time perspective to it, but that's > not the point. Oh, I see now. The survey is not essential - the proposals themselves are needed (e.g. with proper arguments based on some

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-11-12 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 03:18:21PM +0100, jpac...@redhat.com wrote: > Hi Oswald, > > and who makes *that* call? where do you draw the line? it doesn't appear > > magically, somebody with the competence and guts (=> authority) has to > > do it. > > If you're bold enough (devs/committers are :)), yo

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-11-11 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
Hi Oswald, > and who makes *that* call? where do you draw the line? it doesn't appear > magically, somebody with the competence and guts (=> authority) has to > do it. If you're bold enough (devs/committers are :)), you'll do it. > ... but the simple fact is that there is nobody here > who wants

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-11-08 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 11:20:36AM +0100, jpac...@redhat.com wrote: > > from my experience, people without maintainership ambitions simply adapt > > to lower standards. > > Such people are fast to discover => you can ban them (it may/should have > also a social face, not only sudden change of comm

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-11-07 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
Hi Oswald, > from my experience, people without maintainership ambitions simply adapt > to lower standards. Such people are fast to discover => you can ban them (it may/should have also a social face, not only sudden change of commit rights or alike) at the very beginning => solved :). > they co

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-11-07 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
Hi Gary, you must be right. The only concern is about the very final slow-down of patch adoption. In case of mutt, this slow-down was/is (?) really counterproductive. Kind regards -- Jan Pacner

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-11-07 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 11:22:51AM +0100, jpac...@redhat.com wrote: > > try more context. hint: it's a response to what *you* wrote. > > Well, it seems we both have no idea if some of mutt devs are paid or > not, so let's move to the next point :). > actually, i'm pretty confident that none are.

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-11-05 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-11-04, jpacner wrote: > Hi Holger, > > you're entirely right with my misuse of 'high-quality'. I should have > quoted it. The submitter himself would be responsible for the quality. > The point of this suggestion is that patches would be incorporated > faster, but on the other hand they co

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-11-04 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
Hi Holger, > try more context. hint: it's a response to what *you* wrote. Well, it seems we both have no idea if some of mutt devs are paid or not, so let's move to the next point :). > obviously. > i'll point out that we were talking about the motivation to polish > patches. > so how exactly ca

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-11-04 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
Hi Holger, you're entirely right with my misuse of 'high-quality'. I should have quoted it. The submitter himself would be responsible for the quality. The point of this suggestion is that patches would be incorporated faster, but on the other hand they could be much faster abandoned (because the

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-31 Thread Holger Weiß
* jpac...@redhat.com [2013-10-31 13:20]: > > But the solution is not to give everyone commit access. > > Don't get me wrong, but a high-quality patch in conjunction with > constructive track ticket seems enough for accepting the person as a > commiter into (and only into) the quick-moving partly

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-31 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
Hi Holger, > But the solution is not to give everyone > commit access. Don't get me wrong, but a high-quality patch in conjunction with constructive track ticket seems enough for accepting the person as a commiter into (and only into) the quick-moving partly stable branch. It's imho quite far fro

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-31 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
Hi Holger, > You suggest the project could be moved forward without > maintainership, while I believe that strong maintainership is the only > realistic option. More accurately, I suggest the project could be moved forward by _adding_ another tier, which would fill in the hole called "missing pos

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-26 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:33:22AM +0200, jpac...@redhat.com wrote: > >> In one of your emails you mentioned, there are most probably some paid > >> developers. Now you're writing "would need" as if there were none of > >> them right now. I'm not sure what is actually your point. > >> > > i made no

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-24 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 08:50:51PM +0200, Holger Weiß wrote: > * Derek Martin [2013-10-24 10:46]: > > This hasn't been true for Mutt, at least historically. Some of the > > people who submit patches infrequently have taken the time to review > > other patches (myself included)... > > However, th

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-24 Thread Holger Weiß
* Derek Martin [2013-10-24 10:46]: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:05:07PM +0200, Holger Weiß wrote: > > > Of course, but they build only a minority and therefore if the others > > > don't like their work, why not to revert the commit or rewrite the patch > > > with prompting the original author that

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-24 Thread Will Fiveash
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 01:11:29PM +0200, Ondřej Bílka wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:53:33AM +0200, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:45:05AM +0200, jpac...@redhat.com wrote: > > > > And beyond that I think there needs to be a automated C-style checker to > > > > enforc

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-24 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:05:07PM +0200, Holger Weiß wrote: > > Of course, but they build only a minority and therefore if the others > > don't like their work, why not to revert the commit or rewrite the patch > > with prompting the original author that the patch was really bad? > > This sounds

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-24 Thread Holger Weiß
* jpac...@redhat.com [2013-10-24 15:02]: > Anyway, you sound like a usual mutt user, who prefers stability over > new-features (this is the trade-off you've mentioned) and therefore you > can stay calm - you'll get the same quality of stable releases like up > until now (no changes in the stable r

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-24 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
Hi Holger, > This sounds so awesome! No need for maintainers. The community will > just magically take over all their work. > > Of course, in practice, it doesn't work this way. Occasional > contributors add their favourite feature or fix a bug they stumbled > over. That's it. They provide p

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-24 Thread Holger Weiß
* [2013-10-24 10:33]: > > i've been maintainer of sufficiently many projects to know that this > > is not a universally true statement. a significant percentage of casual > > contributors throws some crappy code at you and expects you to be > > grateful for it, possibly flaming you down when you m

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-24 Thread Ondřej Bílka
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:53:33AM +0200, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:45:05AM +0200, jpac...@redhat.com wrote: > > > And beyond that I think there needs to be a automated C-style checker to > > > enforce consistent C code formatting. The checker could be run via a > > >

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-24 Thread Fredrik Gustafsson
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:45:05AM +0200, jpac...@redhat.com wrote: > > And beyond that I think there needs to be a automated C-style checker to > > enforce consistent C code formatting. The checker could be run via a > > gate push hook. > > Why not. Could someone with change repo rights accompli

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-24 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
Hi Fredrik, > If you need an automated tool to enforce formatting rules, doesn't that > apply that your code review process is broken and you risc to slip in > serious bugs? Shouldn't formatting rules be part of the ordinary code > review process? It depends. IMHO it should be, but if the project

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-24 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
> While I'd like to see a more inclusive patch process (I have created > several over the years that I'd like to see included in mutt) I think, > as others have mentioned before, that a comprehensive regression test > needs to be created and included in the mutt source tree with a make > target to

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-24 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
> Mutt might not *any longer* be able to garner that kind of support. > The number of people I know who use Mutt today has become A LOT > smaller than the number of people I know who previously used Mutt. > It's a small project which fills a particular niche that is becoming > less and less interes

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-24 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
uot; > of course it is (*), and that's the whole point. you are asking them to > concede that they are just in the way Exactly. > and to endorse whatever follows. Not at all - therefore the *open* discussion about "the future of mutt" - they can fully influence (prett

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-22 Thread Will Fiveash
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. First, > introduce a special branch in mercurial for a "user-developed" version > of mutt. Commit rights for this branch would be given immediately > (without an

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-21 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 09:54:06PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:29:49AM +0200, jpac...@redhat.com wrote: > > On 10/07/2013 10:29 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > chasing behind a quick-moving branch with much lower quality standards is > anything between deeply demot

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
hi, On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:52:22AM +0200, jpac...@redhat.com wrote: > > chasing behind a quick-moving branch with much lower quality > > standards is anything between deeply demotivating and unrealistic - > > that's why you would need paid people to accomplish that feat. > > In one of your em

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-18 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
Hi Oswald, > yes, there is a huge difference for the *users*, because as it stands, > they are in fact faced with a whole forrest of branches which they need > to merge by themselves. from the perspective of the developers it is the > same - an external source of random patches. Exactly. > chasi

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-17 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:29:49AM +0200, jpac...@redhat.com wrote: > On 10/07/2013 10:29 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > mutt already has that anything-goes branch: it's called trac. when > > you make an actual hg branch of it, it will be a fork, and master > > will be abandoned for good. > > W

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-17 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
Hi Oswald, On 10/07/2013 10:29 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > the difference is that these branches are maintained by the same people, > or at least that those maintaining the stable branch are *paid* to > actively cherry-pick from the unstable branch. > you proposed an open-for-all branch with v

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-07 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 10:56:13AM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote: > On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 02:19:11PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > I'm not going to imagine that because it's a requirement of > > TCP/IP. All machines have a hostname. > > In my opinion `hostname` in the kernel is just a hint.

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-07 Thread Will Fiveash
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 01:06:35PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 12:06:29PM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote: > > MUA may choose to operate offline, so some hacks around libresolv > > (like reading /etc/resolv.conf) are OK instead of just returning -1: > > NO, THEY ARE NOT. If

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-07 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 08:59:32AM +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. > > Not at all. Look at many other projects. Even huge projects like Fedora > ("not guaranteed t

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-07 Thread Alexander Gattin
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 02:19:11PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 12:01:05PM -0700, > Alexander Gattin wrote: > > You have several hostnames or A records or > > domain names or whatever. Then you have > > `hostname`, which is configured in kernel, at > > least in Linux (cat >

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-07 Thread Alexander Gattin
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 02:15:02PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > The patch is ideal, where the ideal which it > conforms to must be that it programmatically > determines the domain of the machine correctly > in all circumstances where that is possible, and > NEVER produces a result which is invalid

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-07 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
Hi, >> Let me propose a fairly minor change in the development process. >> > you are proposing a fork on mutt's own infrastructure. Not at all. Look at many other projects. Even huge projects like Fedora ("not guaranteed to work in a production environment") and RHEL ("everything bundled is guara

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-06 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 01:30:09PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 11:01:20AM -0700, Alexander Gattin wrote: > > If my system is not using DNS for local name resolution, then I > > can still use /etc/network/interfaces (or whatever) scripts to > > edit /etc/resolv.conf just for

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-06 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 12:01:05PM -0700, Alexander Gattin wrote: > You have several hostnames or A records or domain names or whatever. > Then you have `hostname`, which is configured in kernel, at least in > Linux (cat /proc/sys/kernel/hostname), which may match some A > record, or not. Or match

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-06 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 12:02:24PM -0700, Alexander Gattin wrote: > On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 11:20:15AM -0700, > Alexander Gattin wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 01:15:26PM -0500, Derek > > Martin wrote: > > > parsing /etc/resolv.conf directly can be wrong, > > No solution is ideal here. I don'

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-06 Thread Alexander Gattin
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 11:20:15AM -0700, Alexander Gattin wrote: > On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 01:15:26PM -0500, Derek > Martin wrote: > > parsing /etc/resolv.conf directly can be wrong, No solution is ideal here. You've added a lot of comments to trac ticket 3298. There's one problem, though: > Not

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-06 Thread Alexander Gattin
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 01:30:09PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > My system has several IP addresses and several > > hostnames (depending on interface/network). > > Wrong, it has exactly one hostname, as does > every TCP/IP-networked host. It may have > several domain names corresponding to the

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-06 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 11:20:15AM -0700, Alexander Gattin wrote: > On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 01:15:26PM -0500, Derek > Martin wrote: > Yes, it doesn't break, it just returns wrong > domain. Let me be very clear here: This patch CAN NOT produce a domain which is wrong, in the sense that any domain

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-06 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 11:20:15AM -0700, Alexander Gattin wrote: > > It doesn't break anything, because if you don't > > get the domain you expect, > > Yes, it doesn't break, it just returns wrong > domain. If you set it in your muttrc, it will ALWAYS be right. If you fix your /etc/hosts misco

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-06 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 11:01:20AM -0700, Alexander Gattin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 01:06:35PM -0500, Derek > Martin wrote: > If my system is not using DNS for local name > resolution, then I can still use > /etc/network/interfaces (or whatever) scripts to > edit /etc/resolv.conf just for m

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-06 Thread Alexander Gattin
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 01:15:26PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 11:01:20AM -0700, > Alexander Gattin wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 01:06:35PM -0500, Derek > > Martin wrote: > > On the other hand, your patch breaks some of > > setups that do use DNS. > > It doesn't brea

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-06 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 11:01:20AM -0700, Alexander Gattin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 01:06:35PM -0500, Derek > Martin wrote: > > Even if the patch was complete garbage, the > > point is there was never any discussion from the > > devs as to WHY. It was completely ignored for > > three and a

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-06 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 11:01:20AM -0700, Alexander Gattin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 01:06:35PM -0500, Derek > Martin wrote: > On the other hand, your patch breaks some of > setups that do use DNS. It doesn't break anything, because if you don't get the domain you expect, you simply set it

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-06 Thread Alexander Gattin
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 01:06:35PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > Even if the patch was complete garbage, the > point is there was never any discussion from the > devs as to WHY. It was completely ignored for > three and a half years. Yes, ignoring your patch because of technical/stylistic problems

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-05 Thread Richard
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 07:10:07PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > > Yes I am but I need imap.would be better off starting over with python.what > stops me every time is the need for a windows edit control.it shouldn't take > more than 2 days effort for some one knowledge in rich edit controls

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-04 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Yes I am but I need imap.would be better off starting over with python.what stops me every time is the need for a windows edit control.it shouldn't take more than 2 days effort for some one knowledge in rich edit controls.it is taking me forever to climb this learning curve. Sent from my Virgin

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-04 Thread Richard
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 08:18:37AM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > > What I'm proposing is fairly radical and in order for it to become > part of a bigger system, we would need to prove the concept. Proving > the concept means trying it out in small such as part of a mutt > reworking/re-factori

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-04 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 12:06:29PM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 11:16:19PM -0500, Derek > Martin wrote: > > What, you want a counter example? > > Yes, > > > http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3298 > > This one is a miss. Sorry, you're wrong. Even if the patch was com

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-04 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 10/3/2013 6:49 PM, Will Fiveash wrote: That is unfortunate for sure. Isn't Accessibility a general issue for many disabled Unix/Linux users? The reason I ask is to pin down whether it's mutt that needs Accessibility improvements or is it the platform that mutt runs on. Accessibility is an

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-04 Thread Alexander Gattin
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 07:53:11PM +0200, Petr Pisar wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 10:22:00AM +0300, > Alexander Gattin wrote: > > I use / ~b for searching in IMAP > > folder. Newer IMAP versions support > > server-side searching but AFAIK mutt doesn't > > support this (XXX: one more wishlist

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-04 Thread Alexander Gattin
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 11:16:19PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > What, you want a counter example? Yes, > http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3298 This one is a miss. > - Had a working patch 4 years ago. I don't like some parts of your original patch too, by the way. mutt is not an MTA but MUA

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-04 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
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

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-03 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 11:21:40AM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 02:46:07AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 10:22:00AM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote: > > > I use / ~b for searching in IMAP folder. > > > > Yeah, but what if you have 50 folders, and

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-03 Thread Will Fiveash
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 05:38:48PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > On 10/3/2013 3:34 PM, Will Fiveash wrote: > > Isn't there an existing MUA that already meets the needs of disabled > >users? > > spend a week in my microphone and see just how current software royally > f*&(#ds us crips over. Th

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-03 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 10/3/2013 3:34 PM, Will Fiveash wrote: My concern is that mutt works very well for me in its current state. If the process of separating mutt as you describe has a regressive impact on the current text based UI I would be very unhappy. understood. I do not want to make you unhappy. Isn'

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-03 Thread Will Fiveash
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:18:29PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > the unix philosophy, like windows also fails the need of the disabled people > (like me). OTOH, MH was surprisingly friendly to speech recognition. I've > been thinking about how UI's fail the disabled for a few (20) years and ha

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-03 Thread Petr Pisar
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 10:22:00AM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:03:44AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > I use / ~b for searching in IMAP folder. > Newer IMAP versions support server-side searching > but AFAIK mutt doesn't support this (XXX: one more > wishlist item).

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-03 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 10/3/2013 8:59 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: however, the unix philosophy (at least as actually lived by its strict adherents) *totally* fails the requirements of modern end-user computing: the unix philosophy, like windows also fails the need of the disabled people (like me). OTOH, MH wa

Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation

2013-10-03 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
Well, if you don't mind, I would try to make a small intermediate aggregation of the current topics discussed regarding the purpose of this discussion (which is solving the declining vitality of the mutt project). Except for many examples of technical stuff, patches and situations where the proje

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-03 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:04:46PM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote: > The "old" design you talk about comes from UNIX > concepts which power all the iThings, Androids and > Kindles you most probably use and adore yourself. > of course somebody had to say that. i call BullShit! on it. the Unix Philos

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-03 Thread Steve Kemp
> There is of course a wishlist - > * scripting I didn't even consider trying to fold in scripting to mutt, because it seemed like it would be such a mammoth task, and such a significant change for the project that it didn't seem like it would be either welcome or easy. I continue to use

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-03 Thread Richard
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:01:55AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > Considering mutt's maturity in it's *intended* design, improvements and/or > changes in direction greatly diminish one's expections of major changes > are not and cannot be seen which would give the impression of a loss of > "vita

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-03 Thread Alexander Gattin
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 02:46:07AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 10:22:00AM +0300, > Alexander Gattin wrote: > > I use / ~b for searching in IMAP folder. > > Yeah, but what if you have 50 folders, and you > don't know which one the message you're looking > for is in? Usual

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-03 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 10:22:00AM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:03:44AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > In Mutt's context, the Unix philosophy works very well for things > > like handling e-mail attachments, but it works much less well for > > things that are inherent

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-03 Thread Alexander Gattin
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:03:44AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:04:46PM +0300, > Alexander Gattin wrote: > > The "old" design you talk about comes from UNIX > > concepts which power all the iThings, Androids and > > Kindles you most probably use and adore yourself. ... >

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-02 Thread Thomas Roessler
(resending from the subscribed address) On 2013-10-03, at 01:12 +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > So, who's volunteering to do the release engineering for that? > > (I agree that it's time to ship *a* stable version; not sure whether it's > worthwhile at least going through the assorted package

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-02 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 10:12:14PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > The 1.6 release is supposedly waiting on some of those... > and has been for a very long time now. And honestly, given the number of vendors who are distributing 1.5.x, and the number of users who are using it, I think 1.6 should

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-02 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:04:46PM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 10:12:14PM -0500, Derek > Martin wrote: > > and has been for a very long time now. And THAT > > completely ignores the idea that Mutt's design > > is over 15 years old, and its design philosophy > > is much

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-02 Thread Derek Martin
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 co

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-02 Thread David Champion
* On 02 Oct 2013, Alexander Gattin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:58:25AM -0500, David > Champion wrote: > > Lacking a regular contibutor who expresses > > interest in joining the leadership team, it's > > premature to discuss a handoff of project > > leadership. > > That pretty much closes

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-02 Thread Alexander Gattin
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:58:25AM -0500, David Champion wrote: > Lacking a regular contibutor who expresses > interest in joining the leadership team, it's > premature to discuss a handoff of project > leadership. That pretty much closes the discussion ATM. -- With best regards, xrgtn signatu

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-02 Thread Alexander Gattin
important feature, especially when served with header_cache and message_cachedir. Fetchmail is good for POP but for IMAP there are better options IMHO. We all have different opinions regarding mutt development, it seems, so I don't see any sense in discussing here "the future of mutt" and

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-02 Thread David Champion
* On 30 Sep 2013, jpac...@redhat.com wrote: > > by this email I'd like to open discussion about the future of the mutt > project. From year to year we can witness a small, but certain decline > in the overall mutt project vitality. This is in direct contrast with > the user-base which is (accordi

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-01 Thread Derek Martin
Eric, On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:29:23AM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Derek Martin : > > This is nonsense. There have been many discussions on this list > > about possible improvements, covering a wide range of functional and > > UI areas. The 1.6 release is supposedly waiting on some of thos

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-01 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Derek Martin : > This is nonsense. There have been many discussions on this list > about possible improvements, covering a wide range of functional and > UI areas. The 1.6 release is supposedly waiting on some of those... > and has been for a very long time now. And THAT completely ignores > the

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-10-01 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:01:55AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * jpac...@redhat.com [09-30-13 07:29]: > > by this email I'd like to open discussion about the future of the mutt > > project. From year to year we can witness a small, but certain decline > > in the overall mutt project vitality

Re: The future of mutt...

2013-09-30 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* jpac...@redhat.com [09-30-13 07:29]: > by this email I'd like to open discussion about the future of the mutt > project. From year to year we can witness a small, but certain decline > in the overall mutt project vitality. This is in direct contrast with > the user-base which is (according to

The future of mutt...

2013-09-30 Thread jpac...@redhat.com
Hello everybody, by this email I'd like to open discussion about the future of the mutt project. From year to year we can witness a small, but certain decline in the overall mutt project vitality. This is in direct contrast with the user-base which is (according to tickets and mailing lists) both