Status of Thunderbird work
Okay, I am now done with the due diligence I felt I had to do as penance for sending 14 wrapped and flowed patches to the wine-devel mailing list :-/.
To summarize, I have:
1. Submitted a patch that,imho, improves the git documentation on this subject.
2. Revised a Mozillazine KB Entry to hopefully help others:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email
3. Submitted a patch that implements Ben's suggestion to use <pre> and ctype of html to trick Thunderbird into doing the right thing.
4. Submitted a patch to allow attach to be the default for git-format-patch.
I am not wedded to #3 and #4; in fact, I'm about to go revise the Wine Git instructions to make it clear that --attach is a last resort, and not a preferred choice (the current Wine Wiki makes --attach look more preferable than it really is).
If the html patch went in, I would use it, chortling with evil glee each time I did so.
Additionally, Dscho has written a Thunderbird extension to facilitate sending patches. That doesn't fit my ideal flow (I'm actually quite fond of git-imap-send :-/), but Michael Gruber seemed interested and he and Dscho may take it somewhere.
Finally, Michael also communicated in a private email that he may consider some sort of rethink around git-send-email and git-imap-send, which sounded intriguing to me, but way past my fair penance.
Now to go send some more sick and twisted patches to wine-devel... <grin>.
Cheers,
Jeremy
p.s. My apologies for the duplicate patch #1; I thought the from @winehq.org email wasn't going through, and resent from my subscribed email. I would like to sing the praises of list moderators everywhere.
Jeremy White venit, vidit, dixit 12.02.2009 17:09:
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Okay, I am now done with the due diligence I felt I had to do as penance for sending 14 wrapped and flowed patches to the wine-devel mailing list :-/.
To summarize, I have:
1. Submitted a patch that,imho, improves the git documentation on this subject.
2. Revised a Mozillazine KB Entry to hopefully help others:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email
3. Submitted a patch that implements Ben's suggestion to use <pre> and ctype of html to trick Thunderbird into doing the right thing.
4. Submitted a patch to allow attach to be the default for git-format-patch.I am not wedded to #3 and #4; in fact, I'm about to go revise the Wine Git instructions to make it clear that --attach is a last resort, and not a preferred choice (the current Wine Wiki makes --attach look more preferable than it really is).
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If the html patch went in, I would use it, chortling with evil glee each time I did so.
Additionally, Dscho has written a Thunderbird extension to facilitate sending patches. That doesn't fit my ideal flow (I'm actually quite fond of git-imap-send :-/), but Michael Gruber seemed interested and he and Dscho may take it somewhere.
Well, I said I will stick with git-send-mail, but since I'm a TB user (and extension author) I'll help making this available (once I got my QuoteCollapse for TB 3 out of the door).
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Finally, Michael also communicated in a private email that he may
Yeah, private, what could that mean, pryyy-vet? ;)
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consider some sort of rethink around git-send-email and git-imap-send,
OK, it wasn't really meant that private. I think an option restructuring is in order.
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which sounded intriguing to me, but way past my fair penance.
It is not up to the sinner to decide upon his penance! The Wine-devil shall say the final verdict...
Cheers,
Michael