[PATCH v2 1/3] Add 'compose' command

[Felipe Contreras]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Dmitry Kurochkin
<dmitry.kurochkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Dmitry Kurochkin
>> <dmitry.kurochkin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Felipe.
>>>
>>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Running "notmuch compose" more than once within a second would result in
>>>>> identical message ids for the messages, which is not a good idea. That's
>>>>> not likely in interactive use, but the notmuch cli is highly scriptable,
>>>>> so someone is bound to hit this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Some paranoid might also be worried about "leaking" the time you run
>>>>> "notmuch compose"... which may be different from the actual time you
>>>>> send the message.
>>>>
>>>> It's still better than the current situation; nothing. In any case,
>>>> people that have not needed this would not be affected; their UI would
>>>> override the Message-ID.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I disagree.  If notmuch CLI generates a Message-ID, it must be a good
>>> one.  Otherwise we make users falsely believe that they do have a proper
>>> Message-ID while in fact they do not.  And that would bite them sooner
>>> or later.
>>
>> And then they'll report it, and we would fix it.
>>
>> Anyway, everything comes from a patch, so, do you have a patch,
>> pseudo-code, or even a suggestion?
>>
>
> A patch needs some positive reviews to be accepted.  Replying to
> comments with "make a better patch" may not be the best strategy for
> getting your patches accepted.

I did not say "make a better patch" or anything of the sort. You made
comments, I replied to those comments.

Your argument is essentially:

a) we don't have feature X
b) this patch applies feature X imperfectly
c) I don't know how to implement X perfectly

I don't think "patch is not perfect" is a valid argument. No patch is
perfect, if you want a better patch, then *at least* you should
suggest what would make it better.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras