On May 10, 2002 at 11:40, Neil W Rickert wrote: > If development of nmh is languishing, it it because nobody is doing > much of the work. When Richard Coleman was in charge, things moved > along. But since then, nobody has been in charge. A few people have > stepped in and managed things for a little while, so that they could > make their own changes.
I think there has been work, and patch submissions to the mailing list, but there has been no real response. The list has been a dead zone until recently. > Moving the repository won't solve that. If Richard wants to step > back into that role, I would be happy to see that. If somebody else > is willing to take charge that would be fine too. I think moving the repository is a good idea, despite the valiant efforts of Doug hosting the repository. The main reason is to avoid the single-point of failure in nmh development. I've had a free software project for years and I realized that I needed to move the repository somewhere so if something happens to me, it would be others to take over, if they desire. I think the people advocating the move are just considering what is best for the project and not exhibiting any malice towards anyone. I think the resources behind savannah are much better than any individual person involved with nmh can provide for hosting the CVS repository. Since the GNU folks are using Savannah for GNU projects, I figure it would take something extraordinary for savannah to bite it. Plus, they do offer CVS nightly backups that can be downloaded, just in case. > I suspect that we all use nmh, and for the most part we are happy > with it. We have a few gripes about little points. But it works > well enough for us, that we don't want to put the effort into > continuing Richard's original plans to clean up the code base and > make it more maintainable. It seems now that their people who are willing to put the effort in. Otherwise, the whole issue of access the CVS repository would have never come up. I personally have a couple things I would like to tinker with in nmh to help improve it. --ewh
