[gentoo-user] Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

[Jonathan Callen]

On 05/23/2016 11:08 PM, Dale wrote:
> Jonathan Callen wrote:
>> On 05/23/2016 12:39 AM, Dale wrote:
>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>>> Subject: 	[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot
>>>> Date: 	Wed, 18 May 2016 13:45:55 +0200
>>>> From: 	Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
>>>> Reply-To: 	gentoo-dev@l.g.o
>>>> Organization: 	Gentoo
>>>> To: 	gentoo-dev@l.g.o
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm no longer willing to maintain sys-boot/gummiboot and this makes it
>>>> maintainer-needed. The package is no longer maintained upstream,
>>>> and has been merged into systemd. It seems that there are still people
>>>> using it without systemd though, so I'm not going to lastrite it
>>>> myself, and prefer getting a new maintainer for it.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Michał Górny
>>>> <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
>>> This was posted on -dev a few days ago. I'm pretty sure there are
>>> some users here that use this and so far, no one has stepped up to take it.
>>> If one of the users who uses this wants to keep it available, may want
>>> to see if you, and maybe some other helpers, can help maintain it.
>>>
>>> Just thought I would pass this on in case no one was aware.
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> :-)  :-)
>>>
>>> P. S. I'm not sure how this is going to be formatted. It looks odd at
>>> the moment. :/
>>
>> The magic to getting things like this to format correctly is to remove
>> the line that is exactly "-- " (dash-dash-space) and everything
>> following it -- or to ensure that that line is quoted somehow.  Most
>> text email clients treat that string as a signature indicator, and
>> assume that everything following it isn't very important, just boilerplate.
>>
>
>
> My concern was whether it would show what was my text and what was the
> original since they both looked the same.  It didn't quote like it
> normally would but it is fairly obvious as to who said what.
>
> The biggest thing, I wanted to let folks know that if someone doesn't
> step up that this package may die.  I don't use it myself, although I've
> considered switching to it, but know others on this list do use it.
> Some of them likely have the skills to handle this if they have time and
> choose too.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>
>


My client decided that everything after the "-- " line was part of the
signature of the original (forwarded) email, and put it and all that
followed in a very light gray on white, nearly unreadable.  It appears
that your client wants you to use TOFU [Top-post Over, Full-quote Under]
for forwards, even though it allows other formats for replies.

-- 
Jonathan Callen