[neomutt-devel] mutt vs neomutt
toogley at mailbox.org
toogley at mailbox.org
Fri Feb 10 20:31:04 CET 2017
Hey David,
> On February 10, 2017 at 12:12 PM David Champion <dgc at bikeshed.us> wrote:
> [...]
> To paraphrase: Neomutt is a fork. There's no way to think otherwise,
> as I read more of your material and look at events. I think there's
> acknowledgement of that from within, even embracing. The activity
> within the group is characteristic of a project that fully intends to
> supplant its predecessor. I just ask that you own it.
> The only way
> Neomutt is "not a fork" is if you have or anticipate a proposal for
> merge-back. I'd be curious what it is.
Exactly this is what i meant with '"abeyance" phase' in my last comment
in #224. We haven't decided that yet. We haven't decided how much we want
to divorce from mutt, we haven't decided how much we want to merge back to
mutt.
@ kevin
> Forking is a hostile act, and the faux-outrage combined with the denial
"we aren't a fork" to justify it are disgusting.
Does it have to be? why can't we exist in a friendly manner together
without hating each other?
And again, if we are sure to fork, we label everything as such. But for
now, we haven't found a consens to that.
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