[PATCH 1/2] NEWS: add short overview section

[PATCH 1/2] NEWS: add short overview section

[David Bremner]

I decided to err on the side of brevity, since the details are just
below.
---
 NEWS | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8df124f..0115322 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 Notmuch 0.19~rc2 (2014-11-09)
 =============================
 
+Overview
+--------
+
+This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
+handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
+intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
+library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
+one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
+improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
+keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
+
 Command-Line Interface
 ----------------------
 
-- 
2.1.1

[PATCH 2/2] NEWS: deprecate notmuch deliver

[David Bremner]

notmuch-deliver has no commits for about 2.5 years. notmuch-insert has
all the features that deliver does, and as far as I understand the
error handling has now caught up.
---
 NEWS | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0115322..ce7695a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
   `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
   skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
 
+`notmuch deliver` is deprecated
+
+  With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
+  parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
+  `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
+  currently unmaintained.
+
 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
 
   Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
-- 
2.1.1

Re: [PATCH 2/2] NEWS: deprecate notmuch deliver

[Sebastian Schwarz]

On 2014-13-11, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> notmuch-deliver has no commits for about 2.5 years.
> notmuch-insert has all the features that deliver does, and as
> far as I understand the error handling has now caught up.

Once upon a time I spoke out against the removal of
notmuch-deliver:
id:874na0y6x3.fsf@pineapple.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me

But now notmuch-insert has everything I need to replace
notmuch-deliver.  Thanks for getting these features into
mainline notmuch!

Re: [PATCH 2/2] NEWS: deprecate notmuch deliver

[David Bremner]

Sebastian Schwarz <seschwar@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2014-13-11, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
>> notmuch-deliver has no commits for about 2.5 years.
>> notmuch-insert has all the features that deliver does, and as
>> far as I understand the error handling has now caught up.
>
> Once upon a time I spoke out against the removal of
> notmuch-deliver:
> id:874na0y6x3.fsf@pineapple.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me
>
> But now notmuch-insert has everything I need to replace
> notmuch-deliver.  Thanks for getting these features into
> mainline notmuch!

Thanks very much for the feedback. Of course we appreciate praise ;),
but mainly it's good to know your concerns have been addressed.

We'll keep deliver in contrib for another release in case we missed
something.

Cheers,

d