[Noisebridge-discuss] Know C? I have a project for you this weekend

[jim]

when? 


On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 15:08 -0700, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> Dear Noisebridge-discuss,
> 
> I'm the user and Debian maintainer of alpine, a command-line mail and news 
> reader that has a long history. (It descends directly from the famous 
> University of Washington PINE mail and usenet reader.)
> 
> Maildir is one of the two most popualar methods of storing mail on *NIX 
> systems. The alpine developers have not been interested in adding Maildir 
> support. There is a good Maildir patch for alpine, but its author has not 
> agreed to share it under an open source license.
> 
> Debian users who use alpine have been clamoring for a version of alpine 
> that is (a) still open source, and (b) supports Maildir. Alas, I know of 
> no decent patch that satisfies these two properties at once.
> 
> WHAT TO DO?
> 
> So the obvious thing to do is re-write that patch myself. I would just do 
> that, except copyright law generally suggests that if I have read the code 
> and then write something intended to be identical in functionality, I am 
> probably violating the copyright on the non-open-source patch.
> 
> YOU CAN HELP!
> 
> If I read the non-open-source patch and write documentation, and you take 
> that documentation and write a patch and *do* release it as open source, 
> then we can have an open source Maildir patch.
> 
> JOIN ME!
> 
> Reply and we'll get the ball rolling. If you're decent at C, I think that 
> in one solid afternoon (noon to six, say), we can have this entirely done.
> 
> You will earn fame, joy, and my ever-lasting admiration. Also I can throw 
> in some alcohol or pizza if it helps. (-:
> 
> Yours truly,
> 
> -- Asheesh.
>