Re: github mirror

Subject: Re: github mirror

Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 18:15:46 -0800

To: Tomi Ollila

Cc: Sam Halliday, notmuch

From: Wael M. Nasreddine


On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Wael M. Nasreddine
<wael.nasreddine@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 21, 2015 5:48 AM, "Tomi Ollila" <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Exceptionally top-posting as the rest is left just for reference
>> (for anyone interested and loosing the thread context)
>>
>> Marking this as notmuch::fixed as
>>
>> https://github.com/notmuch/notmuch
>>
>> fixes this and is usually up-to-date (I use this link on one of my
>> notmuch installations)
>>
>> Interestingly the wiki is also in github (just that it is updated
>> March 28 -- based on https://github.com/notmuch )
>
> Hi Tomi,
>
> My syncer for the wiki might have died, I'll check on it today! If anyone
> notice it falling out of sync please fell free to give me a shout.
>

It turns out that I forgot to set it up on my new server, it is now
setup and running.

>
>>
>>
>> Tomi
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 27 2014, Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Dear NotMuch,
>> >
>> > I have just started using notmuch and I really love it! I've been using
>> > web interfaces and proprietary mail clients for almost a decade and mutt
>> > before that (because I never got on well with rmail or gnus). Now, I'm
>> > trying to get all my life-hacker aficionados to follow suit.
>> >
>> > I was wanting to submit an RFE for you and to browse your source code to
>> > see how hard it would be to implement, but I was disappointed that it is
>> > all hosted on your own git repository with no issue tracker.
>> >
>> > While I appreciate that you probably use notmuch as your work flow
>> > manager, it is also quite common to use a social website such as github
>> > or getsatisfaction to interface with users. In my experience, github
>> > dramatically increases the number of contributions from users, in the
>> > form of what github calls "pull requests" (if you're a git user but not
>> > a github user, the term is confusing).
>> >
>> > Would it be possible to have a github project for notmuch? I'm certain
>> > the git repositories could be synchronised easily.
>> >
>> > A bridge between github's issue tracker and notmuch would be entirely
>> > possible: they have an API that would allow addition and removal of
>> > tags, as well as editing tickets. Actually, I would probably use such a
>> > thing :-)
>> >
>> > But in any case, my RFE/question was this: how hard would it be to have
>> > an optional mode of behaviour where tags are stored in the message
>> > itself, so that syncing with an IMAP server (e.g. via offlineimap)
>> > would make the tags available on all devices. This would negate the need
>> > for workarounds, such as shared notmuch databases, when users have
>> > multiple machines.
>> >
>> > It would also allow applications like offlineimap to introduce a gmail
>> > plugin that would copy the message into a folder according to its tags,
>> > so gmail labels and notmuch tags would be in sync.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Sam
>> >
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