Re: OT: Roland Puntaier / "getmail6" drama

ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್ <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:29:56 +0000

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Roland,

12021/07/19 01:03.31 ನಲ್ಲಿ, Roland Puntaier <[email protected]> ಬರೆದರು:
> 
> On Tue 21Oct26 08:42, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> >Hi, all,
> >
> >Sorry to bother you with this, but I have a (presumably final) update.  Roland
> >has continued to tell me he will send me "a patch" to integrate his changes
> >from "getmail6" into getmail, continuing to ignore the detailed information I
> >gave on how to send his changes as a series of patches.
> 
> When I first wanted to make the Python 3 changes,
> I couldn't find the link to the repo with all the history.
> Why don't you adopt a more open "open source development"?
> It makes contributing easier.
> I could send you all the commits in getmail6 as patches in emails.
> That is not the modern way to do things.
> It involves manual steps that in the meantime are part of git.
> You can directly pull or cherry-pick.
> So I asked you to make a gitlab or github repo with all the history.
> I would then make a pull request with the commits of getmail6 on top of your HEAD.

It doesn't matter if it's the "modern" way or not. If Charles doesn't want to make a gitlab or github repo, that is their (didn't want to assume a pronoun!) prerogative. If you want to contribute to getmail, you have to do it Charles' way, period. Or, you can *fork* it, but then you should change the name, something Charles has also politely requested given the number of times people have confused it for *real* getmail.

> 
> Merging means also merging our way how to do things.
> If you insist on your old-fashioned methodology, we cannot work together.
> I'm quite sure the community also does not want to make a step backward in methodology.
> 
> We can also not work together,
> if you are constantly offended about your great name or whatever.
> Getmail is just a small wrapper around the Python email libraries.
> What's there so special about it?
> I just happened to use it and wanted Python 3 support.
> That is what open source is about: that you can change what you use.
> And you can also share your changes.

Yes, all of that is absolutely true. If you want to do that, that's *fine*. But you should change the name, which is all Charles has requested.

Just stop with this bullshit. If you want to merge your changes back to getmail, Charles has made it abundantly clear how it should be done. If you *don't* want to merge your changes, that is also fine, but then you should change the name (again, something Charles has made abundantly clear).

Given Charles' requests, which are utterly reasonable, you really should do one of those two things and stop complaining to the mailing list.

- Chiraag
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