Re: getmail and Fedora 32

Remco Rĳnders <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Aug 2020 06:26:21 -0400
Newsgroups	gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID	<X0JETUFaoQVBWqEF@settler>
On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 10:23:02AM +0200, Stefan wrote in 
<[email protected]>:
>The problem is the way that the fork is handled, that it registers
>getmail6.org and seems to push itself aggressively on distributions.

Hi Stefan,

As the person who registered getmail6.org (though not the person doing
work to make getmail work with Python 3), I'd like to respond to this.
I disagree with your assertion that getmail6 is aggressively pushing
itself onto distributions. Do you have any evidence for this? getmail6
was started as many distributions are phasing out support for Python 2
and no work on making getmail work with Python 3 was publically
available yet.

The question of Python 3 support, the use of git (or similar),
etc. has come up repeatedly on this mailing list and reception of
these questions or suggestions have been met with little
enthusiasm. To see the evidence of this, you only have to read back on
this mailinglist on the last couple of threads. As all the hard work
on getmail over the years has been done by Charles, we realise we are
in no position to demand anything from him that he has no time or
interest to work on or with. While perhaps communication on launching
this fork could have been better, I learned about this fork on this
mailing list first, and Charles has been invited to join the project,
so it can hardly come as a surprise that people are working on
this. Our fork/port is not a hostile one and I am sorry if anyone
perceives it as such.

>Try to register python6.org for your fork and see what happens.  Hint:
>the PSF will stop it with the trademark.

Well, getmail is not trademarked. The name getmail6 was chosen
specifically as to not conflict with the name getmail and also to make
a future merger/reconciliation/supersession possible.

getmail6.org was chosen and registered as our domain name as we'd like
our project to have its own website, I hope you take no exception to
that?

>It isn't the first time in the Python community that someone attaches
>his name to another person's work and runs with it.

I disagree with this assertion too. Proper attribution has been given
in all the relevant places in the code released as well as on the
website. If you find any place where this is not the case, please let
me know and we'll adjust it accordingly.

 From this thread it has become clear to me that it is not entirely
clear to everyone that getmail 6 is a fork of getmail 5.14 without
support by or the explicit approval of Charles. As such, I have
clarified this on the getmail6.org website now and hope this will
suffice to prevent any confusion.

Kind regards,

Remco
signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, 488 B)