On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 05:10:57PM -0400, Alexy Khrabrov wrote:
> Marc -- apparently, Mark is very much overloaded by
> supporting UW imap singlei-handedly for so many platforms
> and so many years. In my brief time spent searching archives,
I understand that. I maintain a bunch of things myself and have more than a
full time job.
That said, I try to at least answer my personal mail.
> scary, scary, scary docs:). Minimalism is the only way to
> make it possible, so you're probably overreacting in your
> assessment. Mark might have also considered patches like
> yours before, and forcing people to explain the wrongs they
> didn't commit usually are sent to /dev/null, especially if
> there's a lot of real problems and it looks like a non-issue
> to the other side. This is not to say patches should not be
> acknowledged, but rather it stems from the feature of the UW imap
Mmmh, he just answered he wasn't interested in integrating any of the
patches and that I should maintain them on my side and distribute them
myself.
That's his right, mind you.
However, never answering my request to somehow link to the patches or
mention them somewhere is not being very helpful.
(note that this didn't happen to just me. Jauder Ho, from Transmeta back
then, also wrote patches, some of which mine were based on, and met the same
result than me when he tried to submit them (with nice #define to exclude
all the code by default))
> If there's a community of mail administrators crucially
> dependent on UW imap and knowing it to the level of patching, which
> seems to be the case, the proper thing to do is to form an Apache
> like group for community maintained code, put it onto Sourceforge,
(...)
Sounds like a reasonable idea.
Note that I only became unhappy after Emailing him and giving him a chance
to explain himself, or say something like "sorry, I never really had the
time to look at your patch, and just ended up rewriting it independantly",
or "oh yeah, I meant to write you about this", or something...
But no, nothing, hence the default answer of "I don't care, go away"
Anyway, doesn't matter, I moved on
Marc
(note that I contribute to many open source projects, this is not just the
one patch I happened to write and sent to my first maintainer)
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