Re: Calling for testers: scratch/gnus-decoded branch

[Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>]

Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

>> Or ask professional computer people, in the
>> IT-industry! As they work 70+ hours a week
>> they seem to have even more time...
>
> Hey Emanuel! You don't seem busy, do you
> build Emacs from git? Want to help me test
> the scratch/gnus-decoded branch?

First, I'm busy. I run a bike repair shop.
It is on a DIY basis, but someone has to
maintain order and see to it every day that its
clean and tools aren't abused and end up it
their right places, clean and operational and
ready to use for the next guy. Here is a couple
of photos [1]. I don't sleep many hours
a night, believe me.

Second, while I'd love to help, I don't know
how to do it in that form. My Gnus is so
super-configured and -extended it would be near
impossible to track what and where an error
would be, if I found one. I don't even know how
to use Gnus without all that extra stuff of
mine. I'd be completely lost.

Feel free to browse my code [2] - I'm sure so
much is redundant (already there, only better)
but when I came to Gnus I had no patience doing
stuff the right way so I solved all issues,
again, DIY style. (Some of it may be good OTOH.
It always worked for me, at least.) But
probably you don't want to do that, because
I know *you* are busy!

So if you think I can contribute to the Gnus
project, rather, is there some thing that is on
the TODO list, but hasn't been done or has been
abandoned/put on hold at an early stage?
Something like that I could do, _maybe_. I make
no guarantees tho...

Keep in mind also that while I'm a decent
programmer in the engineering sense, I don't
really understand what goes on under the hood,
protocols and secure sockets and what have you.
Just tellin'.


[1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/work-photos
[2] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/gnus

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