From: Jesse Rosenthal Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:50:46 +0000 (+1900) Subject: Re: Replacing my name/email with "me" (or similar) in author lists X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=64d033940518da01c705c14878bd7020d48732ab;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: Replacing my name/email with "me" (or similar) in author lists --- diff --git a/eb/61b437f3f1e32e3ebd66ffbc68fe10b952be58 b/eb/61b437f3f1e32e3ebd66ffbc68fe10b952be58 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9fd983c98 --- /dev/null +++ b/eb/61b437f3f1e32e3ebd66ffbc68fe10b952be58 @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79273431E82 + for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:50:21 -0800 (PST) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -2.3 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3] autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id Av0loqmBs0ij for ; + Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:50:21 -0800 (PST) +Received: from ipex2.johnshopkins.edu (ipex2.johnshopkins.edu [162.129.8.151]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DF3DD431E64 + for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:50:20 -0800 (PST) +X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,503,1325480400"; d="scan'208";a="129588587" +Received: from unknown (HELO watt) ([10.161.33.18]) + by ipex2.johnshopkins.edu with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; + 29 Feb 2012 10:50:20 -0500 +Received: from jkr by watt with local (Exim 4.76) + (envelope-from ) + id 1S2lni-0006Pw-Fb; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:50:46 -0500 +From: Jesse Rosenthal +To: Austin Clements +Subject: Re: Replacing my name/email with "me" (or similar) in author lists +In-Reply-To: <20120229153657.GA772@mit.edu> +References: + <20120226112210.5422.8471@brick.lan> + <87ehthfsyn.fsf@schoepe.localhost> <87fwdxk062.fsf@zancas.localnet> + <87ehth8dd2.fsf@hermes.hocat.ca> <878vjl3ck3.fsf@jhu.edu> + <20120229153657.GA772@mit.edu> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.11.1+192~g36ce7e3 (http://notmuchmail.org) + Emacs/24.0.93.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:50:46 -0500 +Message-ID: <877gz5tz8p.fsf@jhu.edu> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +Cc: Notmuch Mail +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:50:21 -0000 + +On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:36:57 -0500, Austin Clements wrote: +> What if the output of search (say, specifically the JSON format) +> included information on each message in the thread such as the +> 'message' production from devel/schemata minus the body field? Then +> the frontend would have loads of information it could produce its own +> summaries from. (Plus, with a little tweaking, I don't think this +> would be any more expensive than producing the current notmuch search +> summary output.) + +I was hoping for something like that when I started fiddling. But it's +still going to end up being a library question, because +notmuch-search.c, is tied pretty tightly to the lib: i.e. it uses +functions like `notmuch_thread_get_authors (thread)'. I was using the +python bindings, and I ended up having to make a second query off the +thread id (I could have recursed through the messages too, I suppose). + +So I guess what I'm saying is that what you're suggesting sounds great, +but we'd still have to either (a) add new library functions +(`notmuch_thread_get_recipients', `notmuch_thread_abbrev_me'), (b) keep +them all in the client and make pazz and scripters recreate them, or (c) +play around in the sort of client-library space that it sounded like +Bremner was suggesting. + +Best, +Jesse +