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From: Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke@googlemail.com>
To: Krzysztof Ilowiecki <k@ilowiecki.com>,  notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [alot] Introducing myself, asking various questions
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:32:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4eee3fe5.8bcbe30a.6d78.1918@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANcQd8POazwALwAodK=hnaD7OyxhJD_awJ+J-f0+Ek8_0yNEMA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Kris, welcome on board!

Quoting Krzysztof Ilowiecki (2011-12-18 18:59:28)
>I'm sysadmin/programmer and a physics student. I've been writing
>anything significant in Python for only a year now, but have
>previous experience with C. I prefer to contribute in Python, though.

If you're interested: Sebastian (spaetz) is looking for
a replacement to fork on the python bindings to libnotmuch.
A rewrite in cython would be great.

>.. however I have the
>impression that it may be trying to do too much for my needs, which may
>be peculiar. I have installed offlineimap+notmuch+alot on a slow laptop
>running Debian wheezy.
I guess most of us use offlineimap or getmail in combination
with notmuch. And Debian is also popular choice afaik,
so you're in good company :)

>How likely is it to mess things up in IMAP?
It being offlineimap? dependss on your config but I have no trouble
with it.

>I understand synchronisation across machines and with IMAP is something
>of an issue so far. How bad would it be to use git for that - and for
>'undo'? It would appear some people use git+maildir even instead of
>IMAP, but I guess the notmuch's database may be completely unsuitable...

Davd Bremner has been working on logging integration, which
is focused on enabling tag syncronization in future releases i believe.
Also check out nmbug, that uses git for notmuch bugtracking.

>Does alot have some sort of the design documentation,
There are fairly complete api docs available at alot.rtfd.org

>sketched vision it is heading towards?
world domination, obviously :)

>I think I should write down my ideas before I get
>too entangled in the implementation details, it would be good to
>know if something like this is already available.
check out the issue tracker on https://github.com/pazz/alot/issues ,
I'm using github to coordinate work on alot.

Have fun,
/p

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-18 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-18 18:59 [alot] Introducing myself, asking various questions Krzysztof Ilowiecki
2011-12-18 19:32 ` Patrick Totzke [this message]
2011-12-18 23:02   ` Krzysztof Ilowiecki
2011-12-22 17:55   ` Felipe Contreras
2011-12-18 20:18 ` Tom Prince

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