From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83438 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: pending patches Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 08:33:57 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <871u7ilaru.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372682163 13034 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2013 12:36:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 12:36:03 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31699@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jul 01 14:36:04 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UtdKo-0005UR-Hk for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:35:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1UtdK2-0001y7-H9; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 07:35:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1UtdJz-0001xV-PJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 07:35:07 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UtdJx-0003F0-9v for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 07:35:07 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UtdJv-0007eh-VN for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:35:03 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UtdJv-0004kf-Iy for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:35:03 +0200 Original-Received: from pool-72-93-34-251.bstnma.east.verizon.net ([72.93.34.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:35:03 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by pool-72-93-34-251.bstnma.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:35:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-72-93-34-251.bstnma.east.verizon.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PpO34hl0CoCU/NKMCQbs8cTiwMA= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83438 Archived-At: On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:14:50 +0900 Katsumi Yamaoka wrote: KY> I am a sync engineer merging changes made in Emacs and Gnus one KY> another, and have patches[1] that haven't been applied to Emacs KY> yet left on the shelf. AFAIU, why it is pending is that there KY> are some unresolved problems[2]. Unfortunately the majority of KY> the changes are for IMAP and I'm not an IMAP user, so I'm not KY> capable to join in the development. Now let me make a question; KY> what do you think a better way to handle them? KY> 1. Keep the diffs (forever?) KY> 2. Merge the diffs to Emacs, to open to many users/developers. KY> 3. Revert the diffs. KY> +1 to 2. :) KY> [1] KY> [2] I'm in favor of (2) as well. Ted