Re: running viewmail under emacs 29.3

[Mark Diekhans]

Lets see who else steps up.  I am a slow e-lisper as well, but a
lot of this is organization and minor fixes.

Right now, I feel there are two barriers to entry to have people
contribute: bzr and launchpad.  Git just has a far larger mind
share.  Launchpad has lots of great features for large project
development, but this also is a barrier to entry.

I would start with moving the source to git and migrating to
github.  Including all branches and tickets.

That would be a good starting point for incorporating fixes
and working towards a new release.

Mark

Göran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.se> writes:
> Mark Diekhans skrev:
> > If anyone is interested, lets start a conversation.  VM is an
> > amazing pieces of software.  We might be able to attract others
> > if we can seed a modern approach to collaborative development.
> 
> I'm packaging VM for Fedora, and I would LIKE to participate in
> keeping VM up-to-date. For each version of emacs, it is showing the
> lack of development. I'm not sure how much I CAN contribute, given
> time and elisp competence constraints. For example, with emacs 29.3
> the coloring of the summary buffer sometimes gets into some kind of
> busy loop using 1 cpu full time. So far I haven't been able to figure
> out what the problem is and what to do about it.
> 
> At the same time, there are circulating patches on this list. Also, of
> the issues reported at launchpat.net/vm since way back do include
> fixes but seem to stay ignored. If someone creates a repository
> somewhere and collects all the patches, that could be a good start.
> For "somewhere" there are several options, the weak part is "someone".
> 
> /Göran