From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan) Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:38:31 -0700 Subject: [sup-talk] Introduction, thanks, and a small patch In-Reply-To: <20090815041446.GA1249@yoom.home.cworth.org> References: <20090815041446.GA1249@yoom.home.cworth.org> Message-ID: <1250457809-sup-6784@masanjin.net> Reformatted excerpts from Carl Worth's message of 2009-08-14: > Hi. My name's Carl, and I've uh, been collecting email for 12 years. Hi Carl! Welcome. > 1. Most text is white-on-white (invisible) if the default terminal > background color is white. I would suggest that the default > background color be changed from "default" to "black" to avoid > this trap. Complaining about the colors already? You're fitting right in around here. We recently changed it from black to default in order to make it work for people with transparent terminals. Since there's clearly not a setting that works for everyone, I think the best solution is your suggestion in a later email: provide a few reasonable color schemes directly in sup-sync. > I've attached a patch to fix this second issue, (a single-character > change). Great, thanks. The patch looks good but I think you left a debugging puts call in there. If you want to resubmit, I will apply this. > I love the NewUserGuide, but I've needed a ReferenceManual for various > issues already, (configuring colors, configuring SMTP, understanding > the sources.yaml file well enough to be able to re-process mail that > was mis-labelled the first time, etc.). Agree. This would be very valuable and is currently a sore spot, IMO. > One potential issue is that I don't see any explicit license terms on > the wiki. Can I assume that any text on the wiki is suitable for > putting into a document to be contributed to and distributed with sup? I think it's fair to assume that anyone contributing to a wiki for an open-source product knows what they're getting into. So, yes. Of course, if anyone objects to their wiki content being distributed as part of Sup (which is currently distributed under GPL v2), please speak now! > I really like the ideas William has posted on his blog about > separating the interface from the guts of sup, (to make the new STS). > I'd be happy to help with that as well if possible. Although it's been over a year of vaporware promises, this is slowly happening. I have a protocol defined and a simple server written. Recent work on replacing Ferret with Xapian has actually been helpful in terms of moving us away from Ferretisms. Expect something "soon". > NoMethodError from thread: main > undefined method `to_indexable_s' for nil:NilClass This should now be fixed in git master; see my previous email in this thread. (You will have to manually edit your sent.mbox a bit.) -- William