Update on 0.3 progress

Wed Apr 21 19:49:44 PDT 2010

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:11:14 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:32:25 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> > I know that I want to merge David Edmunson's rewrite of the emacs
> > interface to be built on top of --format=json and add a ton of features,
> > (better attachment handling, notmuch-hello, etc.). I think that's more
> > than enough to justify a new release right there.
> 
> The bulk of this rewrite is merged now. I left a few features out with
> review to David. He (or others) may want to refresh some of those to get
> them in. (I'd especially like a binding for opening all messages in a
> thread).
> 
> I also want to look at notmuch-hello stuff now.
> 
> > But if you have other things you'd like to see in this release, please
> > send a message to the list
> 
> Most of what came in in response to this request has now been merged.
> Notable things that made the merge window but have not been merged yet
> include:
> 
>   * Improve heuristic for guessing best from address in replies
>     id:1271451102-11336-1-git-send-email-hohndel at infradead.org
> 
>     I just need to review and test this still.

I submitted tests for this today.
id:1271886958-3276-1-git-send-email-hohndel at infradead.org

>   * The archive operation should only archive open messages
>     id:87633sfnyq.fsf at yoom.home.cworth.org    
> 
>     This still needs an implementation or else it won't make it.
> > 
> > PS. I still never sent a list of the features which were proposed for
> > the 0.2 release but postponed. I'll assemble that list soon with my
> > comments on where each of the features stand.
> 
> Here's that list now. I really should have had this list ready at the
> time I announced the opening of the 0.3 window so that people would have
> had more notice to refresh these. I'll try to be better about that in
> the future:
> 
>   * Add maildir directory name as tag name for messages
>     id:20100210030142.GD16686 at mail.rocksoft.com
> 
>     I've postponed this until a database-schema-update planned for 0.4
> 
>   * Initial support for maildir flags
>     id:1270755931-24290-1-git-send-email-pioto at pioto.org
> 
>     Same here
> 
>   * Reordering and cleanup of thread authors
>     id:m31veru7vn.fsf at x200.gr8dns.org
> 
>     This is an interesting feature, but says "I don't think this is
>     ready to be pulled" in the commit message and then says "I'll update
>     the patch" at the end of the thread with no update. So I'd still
>     like to see this refreshed (and could still take this for 0.3).
> 
>     Note that the recent fix for the sorting of calls to
>     _add_matched_messages probably means that this feature will work
>     better now than before.

Cool - I'll take a look if I can get you an updated patch tonight.

>   * 'F' in search mode takes us to a list of folders
>     id:87vdc2q2l7.fsf at yoom.home.cworth.org
> 
>     I rejected this on the basis of the choice of key-binding. I expect
>     we'll get a good keybinding once we add notmuch-hello.
> 
>   * Fcc, Maildir, and Emacs message-mode -- a bit of code
>     id:873a1zs3t5.fsf at jhu.edu
> 
>     I've postponed this due to the "I've not tested this robustly since
>     I don't actually use it". With a little confirmed testing, I'd love
>     to have this in place (and on by default)
> 
>   * RFC: User-Agent header
>     id:87iq821hba.fsf at SSpaeth.de
> 
>     This seemed like a good feature proposal, but I didn't see a
>     complete implementation in time for 0.2. There is one now
> 
>   * Mailstore abstraction v4
>     id:1270737766-29237-1-git-send-email-sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz
> 
>     I rejected this due to being extra abstraction in advance of any use
>     case. Michal has recently been following up with pieces of this that
>     are directly justified, (like "notmuch cat"). Thanks!

Thanks for these updates.

I have two more that I submitted 

- the 'G' keybinding that calls an external poll program: this allows
  you to run notmuch new from within emacs at times that are convenient
  for the user; otherwise a user either needs to manually run this from
  outside emacs, or notmuch new is run through cron or offlineimap and
  in that case we get the weird Xapian database access errors
  in the discussion of the patch there was concern that this stalls
  emacs for potentially a long time - I find that acceptable as email is
  imported - other people may find differently (and decide not to use
  this feature) id:m339z4csi1.fsf at x200.gr8dns.org

- the 'd' keybinding that deletes mail/threads (similar to 'a'rchive)
  id:1271891763-10757-1-git-send-email-hohndel at infradead.org

Additionally, I'd really love to see the address completion to be
included in notmuch (at least the emacs part of it - I think there's
still some debate whether the vala sources would cause too much of a
build dependency to be integrated.
I don't think this was ever submitted to the mailing list as a
patch. The .el file that was posted on IRC is here:
http://github.com/dme/notmuch/raw/dme-play/emacs/notmuch-address.el

Thanks

/D 

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Dirk Hohndel
Intel Open Source Technology Center