On 2005-07-12 09:23:59 +0100, Paul Walker wrote: > Nobody from the GUUG camp showed any interest in transferring the > bugs over to a new system, or indeed acknowledged the people > who'd offered to provide a new system. If you want to set one up > and run it, I think a lot of people (mysel included) would find > that very welcome, even if we do lose all the old bugs. :-) If anyone says "here's a system that I'm going to run, please send me the dump so I can import the old data", I'll happily do that. (At the time, debbugs was chosen because it enabled e-mail based submission of bugs; in part a consequence of the kind of Internet access I was using back then. In the time of always on Internet connectivity, that's not a requirement any more, and the e-mail based approach is actually requiring a huge amount of maintenance work. I'm admiring the Debian people for still doing it.) That said, I've mostly been following this discussion while sitting in the back of a conference room at the Luxembourg ICANN meetings. Oswald's diagnosis that I'm spending too little time and attention on mutt development and maintenance is true. Talking about mutt-ng, I'm not very impressed by that -- frankly, I haven't read much from the mutt-ng people on this mailing list, and I don't think I'd count them as being part of the closer mutt community. I think highly, though, of the work that has been done by people like Marco d'Itri who spend a lot of energy and work on the mutt packages that are part of various Linux distributions. So, how do I see the way ahead? I'd hope that some volunteer asks me for the bug database some day soon. I'd be happy for Brendan to take a more active role than currently. And I'm looking forward for next week-end and next week, which look like they are going to be less hectic than the recent past (and than this week). So, while I won't promise you a release this week-end (in fact, I'm not even promising a single commit for this week), I have every reason to believe that I'll have time to spend on mutt in the very close future, which should give us a 1.5.10 well before IETF 63 begins on 31 July. -- Thomas Roessler · Personal soap box at <http://log.does-not-exist.org/>.
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