[spambayes-dev] Releases

[Tony Meyer]

> As I said though, I'm a little worried that it isn't ready
> for the masses. A "step-by-step" guide customized for the top 
> 3 or so mailers would be an excellent start, and provide a 
> framework for others to contribute their mailer.

I'm hoping that the autoconfigure script will take care of a lot of this (it
can setup OE, Eudora, Mozilla, Opera and Pocomail so far).  What I'm not
sure about is how to figure out which mailer to set up, and when this should
be done (part of the install process?  The first time
sb_server/pop3proxy_service/pop3proxy_tray is run on Windows?).

I should probably also either implement Richie's suggestion to have the
autoconfigure create a new account setup for spambayes, leaving their old
one alone (and create docs explaining this), or let autoconfigure also
un-configure, so that if something doesn't work, people can at least get
back to what they had before.  I guess the un-configure could also be useful
for uninstalling spambayes, so maybe I'll do that.

I'll take another look at the readme some time this week and try and figure
out how it can be improved.

> Actually, the best test would be to try and ask your fiancé to
> *configure* the tool after installation :)

I could probably do that, too. :)

[branch to use]
> We do share a few things, but they are minor so testing will
> nail them. OTOH, I'm happy to migrate Outlook to the 1.0 
> branch, and follow the same process there.  In fact, this 
> makes the most sense - stick to the 1.0 branch, and make one 
> more preliminary source-only release.  As we get our act into 
> gear WRT the binary, we can then make a source+binary release 
> from the same branch. 

Sounds good to me.

> About the only thing I am itching to
> do with Outlook is better, persistent stats.

One thing that sb_server does better than Outlook at the moment :)  (Well,
cvs head, not in the 1.0 branch, and assuming that people manage to keep
their messageinfo db's noncorrupt).

["ownership"]
> > Unless someone else steps up, then I'm willing to do this
> Fat chance of someone else stepping up now <wink>

> > 01/11 to 14/11 (wedding, honeymoon :),
> Woo hoo - congrats!  I hope you are having a decent bucks turn!

Me, too <wink>.  It's this Saturday (so no work this weekend, either :), and
my best man keeps mentioning that he has various surprises planned, so
hopefully they are the good type, and not the
wake-up-tied-to-a-cow-in-the-paddock type ;)

> I'm pretty flat out at the moment, but will be able to find
> time to help with this.  (in fact, busy with some win32all 
> and py2exe changes, which while not directly visible here may 
> come in useful - full-blown shell extension in Python anyone? <wink>

As I said, I'm gone for almost three weeks very soon, anyway, so there's not
much I can do either.  Getting the new win32all out will be helpful for at
least two reasons: Thomas will then put out a new py2exe, which means I'll
be able to build test binaries myself, and I would like to use one of the
new menu functions with pop3proxy_tray (to set the default item).

=Tony Meyer