Re: gnus and imap

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Thu, Aug 21 2008, David Engster wrote:

> Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com> writes:
>>> However, saying that adding this feature to all back ends is "no
>>> problem" seems a bit optimistic to me. 
>>
>> All, what it needs, is to fill gnus-info-unread (possibly, with the same
>> value as in active info). Overall changes in backends are quite small,
>> see: http://repo.or.cz/w/more-gnus.git?a=commitdiff;h=5345887a980cdd001a7c48e68143106cbd94efae

I guess that the patches are too large (> 15 lines of new code) to be
installed without legal papers.  So we need a copyright assignment,
either for Gnus or for Emacs (which covers Gnus as well).  If you are
willing to sign, I'll send you the form off-list.  Please let me know.

If you are willing to assign the code to the FSF, could you please
post the complete patch here along with ChangeLog entries?

> Yes, the changes are small. I was just referring to the sheer number of
> back ends which makes this difficult. Besides, there are back ends which
> are really difficult to grasp, like nnmaildir (at least for me).
>
>> Ok, sounds reasonable. I'll try to fix Gnus for using gnus-info-unread
>> when possible. If backend wants to deliver articles in sequence set, it
>> should fill gnus-info-unread, otherwise Gnus will take bits from
>> gnus-active.
>
> Sounds good to me. However, before you do too much work on this, and
> since this is a change in the Gnus internals, maybe someone who is more
> familiar with the code base (Reiner?) can say if this is desirable to
> do.

Unfortunately I'm not too familiar with the backend code and I'm quite
short of free time ATM (and I'll be on holiday during most of
September).  I'll be glad if you and/or other developers find time to
review and test Vitaly's patches.

Additionally, we need to decide how to continue Gnus development, so
I'm not sure if we want to install back end changes at this time.  See
this article:

,----[ http://thread.gmane.org/87wsi91d8d.fsf%40marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de ]
| From: Reiner Steib
| Subject: Gnus development - Emacs 23 feature freeze, Emacs 22.3 pretest
| Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
| To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
| Cc: Miles Bader, ding@gnus.org
| Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:49:22 +0200
| Message-ID: <87wsi91d8d.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
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Bye, Reiner.
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