Elsewhere, in a non-hijacked thread, Carl Worth wrote:
> Is there any existing thread-breaking? There wasn't the last time I
> looked at the code closely, (but admittedly, that was a while ago).

Hi folks,

I've been away from any active involvement in the notmuch community for
far too long.

It turns out that even with an email system as sophisticated as notmuch,
it's possible to slip into bad habits that allow one to get behind with
email. So I got behind.

I also had some difficulty in accepting the fact that I wasn't able to
be as directly involved with notmuch as I was in the beginning. Early on
I would read every message sent to the list and try to ensure that every
question received at least some answer, (whether from me or for someone
else). But of course, I never succeeded at actually keeping up with
that, so my queues kept getting bigger and more intimidating, etc.

Anyway, it's been about 18 months since I've done anything real with
notmuch. I'm so delighted to see that the community that built up around
notmuch has been so independent, doing great things in my absence. I'm
excited to start looking close at the new features that I've not played
with (nmbug, date parsing, etc.), and maybe start implementing some of
those ancient features that I never got around to implementing in the
first place, (indexing of List-Id headers?).

So a huge thank you to all of you!

When I got over the psychological hurdles and decided to just archive
away the old, neglected mail queues, notmuch at least did make that
really easy. And I've now got an email workflow going really well for
me, that I think will be really useful. Notmuch allows the workflow
quite well, but doesn't guide me through it as smoothly as I would
like. More on that in a later message.

But for now, I should be reading the list much more regularly going
forward, and I'll be happy to have people CC me directly when they want
my particular attention for some specific reason.

And of course, all of the 12,000+ [*] messages I missed in the last
18 months[*] are still present in my archives. So new replies to old
messages might bring things to my attention. People can use that
intentionally if it will be useful.

I don't know how much code I'll be committing on a regular basis. But I
will definitely be "around" now much more.

Thanks again for all you've done over the last while. And thanks in
advance for what I know will be a warm welcome.

-Carl

[*] Hurrah for date searches! It's wonderful to have this feature!!