Re: [sup-devel] Rubymail maintainership

[Per Andersson <avtobiff@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Per Andersson's message of 2014-01-28 02:18:35 +0100:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I am the Debian maintainer for sup.
>>
>> Recently Sup developers adopted ncursesw-ruby (the ncursesw gem) and
>> became the new upstream for that. (Instead of having a fork.)
>>
>> Since a few days ago the original upstream now carries the exact same
>> functionality. Is there any reason for carrying a fork of this any longer?
>
> Where is upstream for this, I'm not sure if I am following you? The only
> active fork of ncurses-ruby (ncursesw-ruby) that I can find is ours -
> which is now known as 'ncursesw' in gem world (ncursesw-sup has been
> removed).

It was late when I wrote this. What I mean, but did not manage to put in
writing, is that the rmail-sup gem carries the same functionality. And my
suggestion was that we adopt active maintainership of rmail.

Sorry for the total confusion, I was tired...


>> I understand that the in the future a migration away from rmail is planned.
>> In the meantime, using rmail gem, could reduce complexity. Perhaps a
>> similar move as with ncursesw-ruby can be made, adopting active
>> maintainership? (I can volunteer for this!)
>>
>> As Matt states, rubymail is looking for active maintainership
>>
>>     https://github.com/matta/rubymail/pull/2#issuecomment-33173575
>>
>
> If you are up for it, that would be good, we might as well push directly
> to RMail (and drop rmail-sup). I suggest you contact Matt and we migrate
> the rmail-sup repoistory in sup-heliotrope (at github) to use the rmail
> namespace. If he wants, we could also just move his repository to the
> sup-heliotrope organization.

I'll contact Matt and ask!


> Please also make sure that the other maintainers of sup are
> owners of the rmail gem so that it is not all dependant on one person.

Absolutely!


Best,
Per
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