On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 01:30:19PM -0700, Tracy Reed wrote:
I talked to the developers in #mutt and they have had no
communication with
Karel Zak and had no idea that the mutt-kz fork existed. Nor has anyone by this
name posted to their mailing lists with these patches or expressing interest in
maintaining these parts of the code.
Yeah, it was originally github repository only, but after positive
feedback from notmuch community I have created mailing list and then
more people asked for more features (e.g sidebar), etc.
It seems that it makes sense to establish a fork with regular mailing
list, repository and active community to develop new features than
distribute .diff files by random mailing list and blogs. See around,
internet is full of mutt patches and I don't like it...
We need something better than every few months compose usable mail
client from mutt upstream code and random patches from internet,
I did this for years, but live is too short.
It isn't very good form fork a project saying they are "too
conservative and
too inactive" without even giving them a chance and your assistance with
integrating good code.
I have used (and maintained for Fedora) sidebar patch for more 4
years. How long we should wait?
See
http://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/ is it active? Why there is 20
patches in Debian? Why there is 37 member in this list?
Note that personally I have nothing against mutt upstream.
They DO however express interest in the patches and would like to
have a
discussion about the possibility of merging some of this functionality. The
mutt project is using mercurial. If the various individual patches were
presented for inclusion via mercurial (not one big ugly patch) and a
committment made to supporting the code I have a feeling they would be
seriously considered for mainline integration.
We will see, it's too early now.
A couple more questions about the notmuch functionality:
- I often want to tag an email while sitting in my INBOX which is not a virtual
mailbox. I hit ` (bound to modify-labels by default) and get the error:
No virtual folder, aborting.
What am I doing wrong here?
This is not implemented yet.
- Is there any way to list all existing tags? It might be nice to
have them all
listed in some way in the sidebar in something similar to a tag-cloud.
$ notmuch search --output=tags '*'
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak(a)redhat.com>
http://karelzak.blogspot.com