From: Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)cmf(_dot_)nrl(_dot_)navy(_dot_)mil> Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 14:30:40 -0400 So, I guess my general point is: I think that anyone who wants to do _any_ work on nmh, should just Do it and commit it to the tree
As a kibitzer who doesn't have the C skills to contribute to nmh, but has contributed tcl to exmh, I'd like to second this. On exmh, Brent has left a very free hand and sometimes people (certainly including myself) have committed things that broke functionality, but we somehow have managed to get the fixes in so that the code base has been able to improve. I think nmh needs to have people be unafraid to dive in and make some incremental changes. Rather than discussing *what* IMAP means in the context of nmh, someone needs to just implement what they think it means. If it doesn't quite support someone else's need, that can be fixed. If it can't possibly support someone else's need, then the project can fork until one approach or the other becomes clearly superior. The most important thing not to break are the frontends (exmh, mhe, etc) but let's not be afraid of breaking them in the short term because in the long term, whatever problems turn up can be fixed. Chris -- Chris Garrigues Trinsic Solutions President 1611-B West 6th Street Austin, TX 78703-5074 512-322-0180 http://www.trinsics.com Would you rather proactively pay for uptime or reactively pay for downtime? Trinsic Solutions Your Proactive IT Management Partner
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