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Frank Peters posted on Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:51:59 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> Sylpheed has undergone a lot of development over the years, but I really |
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> haven't noticed. Email is a simple medium and my Sylpheed has always |
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> been simply configured. I don't bother with any of the advanced |
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> features. |
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> I cannot comment on claws which I haven't used, but it is essentially |
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> Sylpheed with a lot of extra features incorporated, and, again, it is |
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> those features which I don't require. |
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Thanks. You explained quite well. =:^) |
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FWIW, the pkovar (Petr Kovar) name may sound familiar to you as one of |
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the sylpheed documentation maintainers (his name rather leapt out at me |
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when I was reading the docs, for reasons I'm about to explain). He's a |
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gnome guy, mainly doing translations and documentation, and doesn't claim |
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to be a coder. However, I know him from his work with pan (gtk2/3 nntp |
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client). |
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It seems pan's former long-time maintainer, Charles Kerr, lost interest a |
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few years ago as he no longer does news on anything like a regular |
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basis. He asked for people to pick it up, but at first, nobody with both |
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the skill and the interest in pan as a news client came forward. Those |
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were some dark days. Eventually (a couple years later), khaley (nobody |
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seems to know what the "k" is for, but he goes lostcoder on github) |
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cloned the repo and started, initially, mostly collecting the various |
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distro patches floating around. He (if it is indeed a he) has become the |
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de facto community maintainer, but for whatever personal reasons, doesn't |
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seem particularly interested, make that not interested at all, in doing |
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the gnome thing, where the bugtracker and official repo are, etc. |
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Well a few months later here comes pkovar, without any developer skill |
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but with an interest in pan and an already active gnome account. The two |
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did the obvious teaming, and now pkovar is the "front man", while khaley |
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is the technical side. Combined with my long-time presence on the pan |
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lists (first post in late 2002), and another developer who seems to |
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complement khaley's conservative bent with a very active experimental |
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branch, pan actually has more people working on it now than it has in a |
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very long time, at least since I've been around, perhaps ever! =:^) |
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So as I said, seeing the pkovar name on the sylpheed docs was quite a |
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pleasant surprise, so while claws seems more down my alley, I'm now |
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devouring everything I happen upon (like this subthread) involving |
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sylpheed with quite some interest. At some point I may ask him similar |
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questions to what I asked you, but I haven't, yet. |
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Meanwhile, ckerr seems to have transferred at least part of his interest |
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to transmission, the gtk-based bittorrent client. I'm not much into |
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torrenting and when I do torrent, ktorrent has been my client of choice, |
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so I don't know a whole lot about transmission, but it's interesting |
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seeing people you know from working with them on one app, working on |
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others, too. And, I guess it shows the degree to which I've become |
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involved in the community, that I can recognize the names as these people |
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move from interest to interest, too. My personal finances, etc, have |
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never been such that I could attend conferences and the like, but the |
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connections are beginning to come, even without that. =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |