Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh @ gsoc?

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

> i know there have been a couple of fuse attempts at imap
> integration -- i don't recall how far they've gotten.  if it
> weren't for possibly already having been done, i'd think that
> would be an almost ideal summer-of-code project, since it would
> be a somewhat stand-alone project, and something with pretty
> well-understood requirements.   and there wouldn't be a lot
> of code archaeology needed to implement it, unlike some other
> possible projects.

A good IMAP client isn't something you're going to write in a few months, 
and certainly not by a student with no prior IMAP implementation 
experience.. IMAP has a lot of subtle behaviours that make writing *good* 
clients difficult until you've had a non-trivial amount of experience 
actually implementing the protocol. At one company I worked at we went 
through three complete ground-up redesigns of our IMAP server over three 
years before we came up with something we were happy with.

A FUSE based imapfs isn't a suitable candidate for a GSOC project.

--lyndon