While I have some frustration with VM, it continues to be a powerful and useful client. I haven't found a good replacement.
VM suffers from the interrelated problems of only one main developer, a small user base and a lack of visibility. If VM is going to continue to exist, I feel we need to develop a more active user and developer community. It would be great to hear some ideas on how to accomplish this. One thought is that launchpad is not the best environment for loose collaborations. Either mirroring on github or moving there completely would make it easier for contributions. VM could use an informative web site, https://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/ doesn't inspire someone want to try it. I have plans to make a VM package. but haven't gotten to it yet :-( We can't just expect Uday to do everything. Even if someone isn't an e-lisp programmer, there is a lot that needs to be done that doesn't require code. Mark Uday S Reddy <[email protected]> writes: > I agree it is unlikely that VM will last long. I don't know when it will > die. Probably when new RfC's will come along and we may not have the energy > to process the new kinds of messages. But, at the moment, it seems to work > fine.
