[neomutt-devel] Easy Coding Jobs -- Mentoring

Guillaume Brogi gui-gui at netcourrier.com
Sat Oct 1 20:27:21 CEST 2016


On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 08:25:01PM +0200, Guillaume Brogi wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 02:07:42PM +0100, Richard Russon wrote:
> > I'm looking for ideas for easy coding jobs.
> > 
> > The jobs should be:
> > - Simple to understand
> > - Simple to code
> > - Self-contained
> > - Low priority
> > 
> > The hope is to attract more new developers, so please don't work on them
> > unless you haven't contributed code before.
> > 
> > I'm offering to mentor any new developers.
> > I'd appreciate any other volunteers to mentor.
> > 
> > # Ideas
> > 
> > - Summary pages - https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/162
> > - Use line-drawing chars in the sidebar divider
> > - Bugfix: XXXyou at domain.com wrongly identified as from you
> > - Change dir autocompletes to dir/ (slash), but then fails
> > - Forgotten attachments: Streamline the "disabled" code path
> > - Hooks for startup, shutdown
> > - Separate folder_format for network mailboxes
> > 
> > What else would be an appropriate task for a new coder?
> 
> I have a double idea, but I don't know how appropriate it would be for a
> new coder. I don't like the way mutt shows senders, or rather the first
> sender in the list. I used to use sup, and it displays the first name of
> each sender, or if there's an alias for this sender the alias. It also
> doesn't only show the senders of the first mail, but rather the
> participants of the whole thread. So, I would like a new placeholder for
> index_format which would show the participants in the thread, and,
> second part of the feature, replaces their names with their alias if
> available. In case there's only mail you sent in the thread, sup
> displays the recipients in parenthesis. Here is a screenshot:
> http://sup-heliotrope.github.io/images/old_screenshot_1.png
> The second part of the feature could be an option which would also
> change the behaviour of '%F'.
> 
> I don't know if anyone else is interested by this, and I don't know how
> hard it would be to implement. I'm guessing the hard part would be the
> "replace with alias" part.
> 
> What do you guys think?

And now that I think of it, the first part only makes sense if the
thread is folded, so it may be harder to code than I realised.

-- 
guiniol

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