From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS file Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:44:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <18375.18663.981150.252393@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87ve41jrs5.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <200803090100.m29105Be005949@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205030727 14446 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2008 02:45:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 02:45:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, alex@gnu.org, henrik.enberg@telia.com, Bastien , eliz@gnu.org To: Xavier Maillard Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 09 03:45:53 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JYBXq-0002x8-WD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:45:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYBXJ-0006jf-2l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:45:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYBXE-0006jR-Ve for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:45:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYBXC-0006jE-MI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:45:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYBXC-0006jB-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:45:10 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYBWx-0004ho-T5; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:44:56 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmgCAEze0kfO+J2CdGdsb2JhbACQfQEwmQWBBw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,468,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="15752898" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 08 Mar 2008 21:44:55 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.157.130]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id PFB27655; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:44:55 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id DDE7C7FD4; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 21:44:54 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200803090100.m29105Be005949@localhost.localdomain> (Xavier Maillard's message of "Sun, 9 Mar 2008 02:00:06 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91844 Archived-At: >>> But the focus will be on 23.1. As mentioned I'd like to enter feature >>> freeze for 23.1 by the beginning of the summer. Until then I mostly >>> hope to include Emacs.app. >> >>> I hope that the Rmail mbox branch can be included in 23 also. >> >> That would be fine by me, but is there progress on this front? > I think the development on the Rmail mbox branch stopped. > As I am working on the EasyPG support for Rmail, and getting more > familiar with the Rmail code, I would be glad to revive this branch. > But since I was not part of the previous rewrite effort, it is quite > difficult to get an overview of what has been done so far and what > still needs to be done. > Sadly I haven't eard from Enrik and Alex for ages. I know there > is an embryon of a working mbox branch 8but* it is far from > complete. > What is not quite clear to me is what do people expect from this > "rewrite effort" exactly ? To me the first goal should be just to change the underlying format from BABYL to standard mbox so that it can interact with other programs. > I guess the primary goal is to switch to a more "popular" file > storage but Alex and Enrik have also worked on the MIME part to, > at last, have a decent MIME support (even basic) for us, Rmail users. MIME additions would be good. Ideally, this should share a lot of code with the Gnus MIME code (some of which is also used by MH-E IIUC). Stefan