[announce] nmhive v0.1.0

[W. Trevor King]

I like nmbug's distributed tag maintenance, but not everyone has
notmuch/nmbug installed locally (yet ;).  However, everyone that I
know does have a browser and a mail client.  They can submit messages
with their mail client already, but we've been missing a way for them
to help tag messages.  Nmhive is a lightweight server that allows
clients to read and write notmuch tags using a JSON API [1].  It uses
nmbug locally to commit after each write, and the admin can then pull
tag changes made by nmhive and push them into the native nmbug
ecosystem:

  web client → nmhive → nmhive's nmbug → admin's nmbug → tethera's nmbug

To make it easy for folks to drive nmhive, the repository also
contains a bookmarklet [2] that you can use to interactively manage
tags from a message's Gmane page (e.g., [3,4]).  The setup currently
uses my ported-to-Python nmbug [5] if you want to play with it
locally.  I haven't added user authentication yet, so it's probably
best to just run your own nmhive for now.  If anyone has preferences
for authentication, send a patch :).  Or at least let me know, and
I'll see what I can do ;).  I'd appreciate any other feedback folks
have as well.

Cheers,
Trevor

[1]: https://github.com/wking/nmhive
[2]: https://github.com/wking/nmhive/blob/v0.1.0/nmbug.js
[3]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.notmuch.general/19091/focus=19092
[4]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.notmuch.general/19092
[5]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.notmuch.general/19007
     id:e630b6763e9d0771718afee41ea15b29bb4a1de8.1409935538.git.wking at tremily.us

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