On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:24:46AM -0700, Brendan Cully wrote: > 1. mutt is a pretty good mailreader. So that people don't think I'm just a whiner, I do agree with this. I have strong objections to the way new mail is handled, but aside from that one aspect of mail managment, mutt is hands down the best mailer there is, IMO. If I didn't think so, I wouldn't still be using it, and I wouldn't be complaining so much. ;-) > 2. forks are bad. I agree with this also. But what we have now is tantamount to a bunch of small forks... People are forced to maintain a large number of patches, which lots of users want, which lots of Linux distros add by default. Recently a good number of these have been included, but there are many more which remain discluded without any discussion. By including them, all this patch maintenance stops. For those who don't want them, they have the option to simply not use them, or there could be a runtime option, or for the most beastly features, even a ./configure option to disclude the code at compile time. > 3. Thomas and I are obviously too busy Yes. :) > but finding a trustworthy additional maintainer isn't easy. I bet it would be easier than you think. This is the first I've heard that you guys think an additional maintainer is a good idea. I suspect if you made an official announcement, you could find very qualified people. Mutt is popular enough that I bet even some of the major linux-oriented news sites (slashdot, lwn, etc.) would pick up the announcment. There's bound to be someone around with enough experience and free time to take on the challenge. > 4. A BTS and a 1.5.10 followed soon after by a 1.6 would be > nice. Either GnuPG or sourceforge seem like they'd be suitable and > easy to start using. As I mentioned at the top, I'm not the one to > pull the trigger though. Yup. -- 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. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers.
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