{"id":153,"date":"2005-02-10T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-10T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T12:58:11","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Mutt: The Next Generation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use the email client <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutt.org\/\">Mutt<\/a>.  It is a tricky-to-learn-but-incredibly-powerful email client.  In the past, I have contributed minor patches to the project.  Recently, there has been very little new development: the code base has stayed pretty static for the last couple of years.  Given that there are a large number of people using the program, this indicates that it has reached a state of Pretty Much As Good As It Gets.<\/p>\n<p>However, some of the non-core Mutt developers have become disillusioned with their contributed patches not being accepted into the main code base and have <a href=\"http:\/\/synflood.at\/blog\/archives\/2005:01:09\/forking-mutt\">raised the idea<\/a> of forking the code off into a separate project (perfectly legitimate, legally and technically &#8211; however, it&#8217;s rarely the best option if a way can be found for all developers to continue working on the same code base).  This has resulted in a lot of heated discussion on the mutt-dev mailing list, as the core developers try to placate others by being more open to new patches to the code.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how it develops, as some of the larger patches to be contributed add large amounts of new functionality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use the email client Mutt. It is a tricky-to-learn-but-incredibly-powerful email client. In the past, I have contributed minor patches to the project. Recently, there has been very little new development: the code base has stayed pretty static for the last couple of years. Given that there are a large number of people using the&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=153\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}