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Mutt developer resources
Bug tracking system
This trac exists mostly for its bug tracking database: report:3
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When reporting new tickets, please make sure that
- you find a short but meaningful summary
- describe a procedure for others to reproduce the problem (if possible)
- select properties carefully, especially the priority, component and type fields
- add "patch" to the keywords field when you have a proposed solution
See DebugTips for things to do to help diagnose a bug so that we can fix it faster.
Documentation
Browse the manual for the development version, updated nightly.
Code
The source code is maintained in a Mercurial repository here. You can pull your own copy for hacking with
hg clone http://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt#HEAD
This will clone only the HEAD branch (where mainline development happens. You can omit the #HEAD to clone the entire repository, but then you will need to use another command to check out the latest version into your working directory after the clone:
hg update -C HEAD
Afterwards, hg pull -u should keep you up to date.
Nightly snapshots
Download a nightly snapshot of the mutt distribution here
Release roadmap
The roadmap has the current list of bugs blocking the release of Mutt 1.6. There is also a TODO for the next point release here.
Developer Resources
The mutt source contains some developer resources in the contrib/ subdirectory, namely:
When preparing/maintaining 3rd patches, see:
- http://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/raw-file/tip/doc/applying-patches.txt
- http://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/raw-file/tip/doc/patch-notes.txt
Brainstorming
This lists topics that we're currently collecting ideas for:
- NewMailHandling overhaul
- UnifyMailboxInterface (more issues than only new mail handling)
- MailboxDriverCleanup and MAPI support
Attachments
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