Re: github mirror

Subject: Re: github mirror

Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 08:23:22 -0800

To: Tomi Ollila

Cc: Sam Halliday, notmuch

From: Wael M. Nasreddine


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.
>
>
> 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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