Re: Responsive projects (was: Re: My 138 $ Amazon order ( for 6pm today ).)

On Thu, 9 May 2024 11:47:23 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
wrote in <v1ir6d$o14n$1@dont-email.me>:

I wouldn't ding small open-source team for being slow in responding to bugs, as
they may have other more important things on their plate.
 
I will note one responsive project: Meson, on GitHub. Meson was using a file
called "meson_options.txt" to hold default values for project options. I wrote
up an issue about it (as had others earlier, apparently), and I noted that
the "txt" extension is too generic, and that I edited my /etc/DIR_COLORS file
so that I could grok a directory listing faster. And in version 1.1 IIRC,
voila, there was meson.options to supplement meson.build.

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I posted an issue for gmime yesterday, and ended up in a dialogue
with the lead developer.
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Pan users will note that I was bird-dogging a problem that has plagued
pan since they moved to gmime for handling headers -- currently,
Newsgroups: lines don't wrap properly, and get MIME-encoded
if they are too long.  News servers choke on that.  (My C is too rusty
to fix it easily, but I can see where the fix should go.)