Re: [Jwebmail-devel] How to help?

[GCS <gcs...@us...>]

> I don't think we need to CC anymore since we're all on the same mailing
> list.
 Sure.

> I thought the 0.8 base is out of date.
 It is. It should be checked what have been fixed in 0.7 and forward port
them. It it is apply even, I could not find any time to look into
Sebastian's changes.

> From Sebastian post re JSP pages:
>> Actually I am in favor of this solution (originally thought of it
>> myself), but never implemented it, since it will probably require a
>> large amount of work.
 Yup. JSP would mix code and presentation, which isn't a good idea imho.
Maybe we should use velocity templates?

> This is done in other projects. For example Apache's Cocoon project offers
> a
> layer that does scripting (before XSL translation but after a serializer
> thingy).
 Ehh? Which part? Ok, I am outdated in Cocoon.

> This solution offers the best of both worlds. (I'm so technical
> (heh); I never really got to know cocoon very well.) So it can't be "too
> hard". Actually, maybe the best route is to integrate in to cocoon though
> maybe that's a little heavy. (The purpose of integration is to focus on
> other jobs like IMAP sorting and such and leave the
> scripting/compiling/etc
> to the other guys.)
 I think we are late. Just got the fresh Cocoon 2.1 cvs, and it does
include a webmail on it's own. Could not try it out, anyway I can not
install Cocoon, if anyone knows how to move _only_ the needed binaries
out of the source, please let me know.

>> I don't have too much time either, since I have this nasty habit of
>> spreading myself out too thin on too many things I want to do. I'll
>> start working with the .8 codebase since I plan on restructuring the
>> code layout too. That way I won't interrupt anything still going on in
>> .7. Can't say when I'll get my first patch ready, but I'll mail it to
>> one of the commiters on the list so they can include it.
 Sounds that your patch will be *big*. It it is possible, we would prefer
more, but smaller patches for specific problems.

Thank you for your time and support,
GCS