Howdy, nmh developers.  A private discussion among some of the developers
has just concluded, and the upshot is we'd like to establish a convention:

If someone sends a patch to nmh-workers and you intend to commit it to the
CVS archive, please reply on nmh-workers that you plan to do so.

Do not respond directly to the author.  If you do that, other developers
won't be aware of what you're doing (unless they happen to respond to the
author too and hear back from him/her in time) and may duplicate your
effort.

If the patch is something trivial, you should be able to get away with just
a single post at the beginning.  "Hey, thanks for fixing that -- I'll apply
your patch right now / later today / ..."

If it's something more involved, though, please also post to nmh-workers
when you're done applying the patch.

Thanks!  Hopefully we can avoid duplication of effort and also keep everyone
informed with this little convention.

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