On Wed, Oct 04 2017, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

Hi Eric,

> I've been very slowly reading the Gnus code base, and looking at how to
> go about doing some refactoring, cleanups, and a few new features. I
> wrote a roadmap which I'm attaching here -- it's not so much an actual
> roadmap as a collection of possible changes, as a starting point for
> argument. It's also not meant to be a mini bug tracker in Org -- my idea
> was that if any of the ideas looked like they were going to be
> acceptable, the todo items would turn into real bug reports on debbugs.

As a former regular Gnus contributor and as a current and long time Gnus
user, I want to give you my blessing. :-)

They are definitively ton of little code improvement you can make. All
of this technical debt reduction will lead to a better Gnus and a better
development future, so yes please!

I don't know how true it is nowadays, but a lot of what was blocking
improvement back then was support for old Emacs version and XEmacs
support. Now that Gnus is in Emacs source tree, I imagine that might not
applies anymore, so, lucky you! :)

-- 
Julien Danjou
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