14 Feb 2001 (updated 14 Feb 2001 at 04:53 UTC)
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9pm, getting ready for frisbee
aero|oreaMail
So I received a message from Mark Cushman last night
about my changes to AeroMail. He liked them but he didn't
want to implement all of the MySQL features. He basically
thought that LDAP is a more widely used solution for storing
user address books and options. He basically summed things
up by saying that the features that I've added to AeroMail
are not part of the straight line path that he is taking
from version 1.4 to version 2.0 of AeroMail.
I'm cool with that and he has every right as the
author
of the program to decide where it's going to go. I just
don't want to do a code fork. He suggested that I change
the name of my code base to something else so as not to
confuse users with a name like aeromail-mysql or something
like that. So in my first attempt at coming up with a name
I tried OreaMail(orea being aero spelled backwards). I went
ahead and changed some things in the tarball and released my
modified aeromail to the aeromail mailing list as OreaMail
1.0. Before I fell asleep last night I thought of a better
name. WindMail. Since Aero is like air I thought Wind
would be a nice related name and also it's a pun on
windmill. There could be a little logo with envelopes as
the blades on a windmill. Ok.....
So I recieved a message from someone on the aeromail
list
today saying that the changes I made were great and that
they were just what he was looking for. That got me a bit
hyped up and now I think I might continue on with my fork of
AeroMail. But I think what I will do is everytime I make a
new release of WindMail, I will also submit the changes back
to the aeromail list and likewise whenever a new version of
AeroMail is released I will try to incorporate the changes
back into WindMail. That way they evolve somewhat as sister
programs.
11:54pm
Hmmm, obviously the advogato software doesn't do input
checking very well. As I was able to make myself a doubter
of project universe by telneting to port 80. Not that I
shouldn't be a doubter, but I shouldn't be allowed to be one
officially I guess.