Seeking a good home for OfflineIMAP
[ also posted on comp.lang.python ]
Hi,
I'm the author of OfflineIMAP[1], a bidirectional IMAP synchronization
tool. Its job is to let you read IMAP mail with any mail reader that
can understand a Maildir, and to keep your mail readers in sync on all
your different computers.
Here's the problem. I consider OfflineIMAP basically finished. It does
more than I ever expected out of it, and I haven't lost any mail from in
its entire lifespan.
I've done a poor job lately of tracking down bugs that people have
submitted and generally of maintaining the code. Part of that is
because I don't have time. Part is, I admit, that the problems are just
not interesting to me, since OfflineIMAP works fine for me already.
I know a lot of people find OfflineIMAP useful, and I feel that I'm
letting people down sometimes.
So I am asking here for somebody (or beter, several people) that would
like to take over development and maintenance on OfflineIMAP. If you
don't want that, maybe you could at least handle bug reports and send me
diffs. I'm content still making releases, or else pretty much ending my
involvement. I could put my Subversion repository back up again, and
you could hack on that with me, or you could just take it over to *forge
and go your own way. Whatever you prefer. I'm happy to continue
hosting the mailing list and answer the "wtf did you do there"
questions.
OfflineIMAP is pure Python, highly modular, and (I think) easy to work
with. With one exception: the IMAP communication code. And that is
because it has to use imaplib, which doesn't lend itself very well to,
erm, clean code :-)
If you're interested, I'd encourage you to sign up[2] for the
offlineimap list and post there, so we can get started right away.
Thanks,
John
[1] http://quux.org/devel/offlineimap
[2] Send "subscribe" to offlineimap DASH request aT complete dOt org
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