On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 11:36 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: [snip...] > The very simple reason is lack of interest. Whenever I posted a patch in > the past, it took months before somebody even touched the status of the > bug, commented on it or even took a look at it. This has nothing to do > with time anymore, as far as I can see (weeks, okay. But months?) > > Which is absolutely not my problem, nor should I condemn that or > whatever nor am I trying to make a statement other than: well then, I'm > also not going to loose *my* time with that. > > I guess that sounds fair, or doesn't it? > > (I have to note, though, that fejj very recently commented on some of > the patches, for which I'm grateful and I have been taking into account > his comments and will improve the stuff he mentioned soon). > Fejj is a long time contributor to Evolution and he is no different from any evolution developers and a nod from him would be a good validation point for Mailer hackers to work with you and get your work upstream.
Of all those features/implementations that you have mentioned so far, I could list 2 of them fit the interest of evolution - mmap (without summary format changes - adding len is okay) and memory-optimization in using "tokens" in camel-folder-summary.c. Rest of them are too focused and don't provide abstractions to extend for a desktop application. Also, I am still on the assumption that you are getting your mmap work committed to the mmap-branch, which would be validated and taken during the next development cycle and I am yet to see any updates on that. > Although I *AM* actively going to help the person who will port this > stuff to Evolution's Camel. By that I mean that I *will* make time for > this person. A lot if necessary. Entire evenings of free time if I have > to. > > It's not so much about *time* itself, it's 100% about loosing it on > something that wont be acted upon anyway. Nobody enjoys that, I > certainly don't. > We appreciate that and looking forward to get the good work merged soon. V. Varadhan _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
