[Mailman-Developers] Reg: Postorius Issue 127

[Siddhartha Gairola]

Thank you Steve for your mail.
Will begin reading the code and try to figure out what to do next.
Will get back to you once I make progress or have some difficulty.

Regards,
Siddhartha.

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 7:00 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <
turnbull.stephen.fw at u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:

> Siddhartha Gairola writes:
>
>  > I would like to work on Postorius issue 127 -
>  > https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/issues/127.
>  >
>  > I would be grateful if someone could tell me how to start solving this.
>
> You start by starting. ;-)  "Claiming" the issue and posting here was
> a good start. :-)  First, check with Nitish Kumar Dwivedi
> (https://gitlab.com/nitishkd) that s/he is not currently working on
> the issue to ensure no conflict over your contribution.[1]  You don't
> need to wait for an answer to start working; it won't be useless
> duplication for a couple more steps.
>
> Now tell me[2] what you think you should do next.  (Coding != developing.
> Developers are engineers who solve problems.  We will help you when
> you get stuck, but you have to solve the problem.  Don't worry, we'll
> wait. :-)
>
> Steve
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  No, 7 months silence != issue abandoned.  Conflicts over credit
> are rare in Mailman; we are a pretty flexible, friendly and
> conscientious group in that respect.  On the other hand, we do care
> about keeping each other in the loop.  And it's possible that Nitish
> has a nearly complete solution in a private branch.  If so, your work
> would likely be redundant -- if Nitish is in no hurry to work on it,
> try negotiating for joint credit: get that branch MR'ed, and then do
> the remaining work to integrate.
>
> [2]  On the issue or on this list -- I will IGNORE personal mail if it
> doesn't have a reference to a public channel!! so check your headers
> before sending mail, this list does NOT munge Reply-To.  I've assigned
> the issue to myself so I will get notifications.
>
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