Re: Why V3 (Was: Re: Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah)

2012-08-12 Thread Sriram Karra
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Roland Winkler wrote: > > Also, there is one Notes field in each record which usually holds > the list of note fields, which in turn are cons pairs (KEY . VALUE). > Some pieces of BBDB v2 also allowed the Notes field to be a single > string, instead of the list of

Re: Why V3 (Was: Re: Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah)

2012-08-11 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sat Aug 11 2012 Sriram Karra wrote: > Further, "throwing them away" could just be stashing the fields > into the notes list. Certainly. But if you then decide to give v3 a second try, you will not get back what you had before. > Just for the record, can you tell us about all the changes in the

Re: Why V3 (Was: Re: Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah)

2012-08-10 Thread Sriram Karra
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Roland Winkler wrote: > 2. If I use BBDB v3 and don't like it can I go back to v2 > > #2 can and should get fixed. I find it quite amusing in fact, the > > bbdb-migrate stuff has always had the hooks to downgrade to an > > earlier file format version - until now,

Re: Why V3 (Was: Re: Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah)

2012-08-10 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sat Aug 11 2012 Sriram Karra wrote: > I have rewritten along lines you have suggested and pushed it. Please take a > look. Looks fine to me, thanks, > Backwards compatibility for me would mean a few distinct things: > > 1. Will my old customizations work with the new code > #1 might never get

Re: Why V3 (Was: Re: Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah)

2012-08-10 Thread Sriram Karra
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Roland Winkler wrote: > > Thanks a lot for doing this. Two things: > > - My first name is Roland > Ah, indeed :) > - I suggest to replace the 2nd paragraph by something like the > following > I have rewritten along lines you have suggested and pushed it. Pl

Re: Why V3 (Was: Re: Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah)

2012-08-10 Thread Roland Winkler
On Fri Aug 10 2012 Sriram Karra wrote: > I have updated site (http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/) with a note > pointing to Savannah.  That done,  I now feel it is best to just > leave that site alone. Any FAQ etc. should reside on the Savannah > site. Thoughts? Thanks a lot for doing this. Two things:

Re: Why V3 (Was: Re: Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah)

2012-08-10 Thread Sriram Karra
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Roland Winkler wrote: > > > I would like to capture this question and a summary of your > > answers as a FAQ on the updated project site on sourceforge. > > Thanks a lot, that will be helpful I have updated site (http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/) with a note pointin

Re: Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah

2012-07-01 Thread Roland Winkler
On Thu Jun 21 2012 Sriram Karra wrote: > I now have ownership of the BBDB project on sourceforge; I will bring the > content up to date over the next few weeks as I figure out how to manage that > site. Thanks a lot for working on this. Roland

Why V3 (Was: Re: Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah)

2012-07-01 Thread Roland Winkler
On Thu Jun 21 2012 Sriram Karra wrote: > Perhaps now is a good time for me to ask this question that's been > on my mind for a while: Apart from an extensive code cleanup, are > there any other things to look forward to with your upcoming > release? This is particularly important given the level of

Why V3 (Was: Re: Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah)

2012-06-20 Thread Sriram Karra
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Roland Winkler wrote: > > PS: I hope that in a few days I can submit my recent work on BBDB. I > just need to summarize things in the ChangeLog. > Great! Perhaps now is a good time for me to ask this question that's been on my mind for a while: Apart from an exte

Re: Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah

2012-06-20 Thread Sriram Karra
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Roland Winkler wrote: > On Mon Jun 18 2012 Sriram Karra wrote: > > This is the response of the SF team. Would you like to take > > ownership of the page at bbdb.sourceforge.net? If yes, send me > > your sourceforge user name. Otherwise I can take temporary > > ow

Re: Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah

2012-06-19 Thread Sam Steingold
> * Roland Winkler [2012-06-19 14:47:41 -0500]: > > PS: I hope that in a few days I can submit my recent work on BBDB. I > just need to summarize things in the ChangeLog. how about my patches of a few months back? -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) X 11.0.111030

Re: Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah

2012-06-19 Thread Roland Winkler
On Mon Jun 18 2012 Sriram Karra wrote: > This is the response of the SF team. Would you like to take > ownership of the page at bbdb.sourceforge.net? If yes, send me > your sourceforge user name. Otherwise I can take temporary > ownership of that page and bring it 'up to date' to the extent I > und

Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah

2012-06-17 Thread Sriram Karra
et me know. -Karra -- Forwarded message -- From: SourceForge.net Support Date: Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:45 PM Subject: Re: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah To: "Sriram ET." Greetings, Apologies for the delay on this, but please log a support ticket req

Re: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah

2012-05-13 Thread Sriram ET.
Hi guys, Hi, Can you guys take a look at this issue some time? If it is hard to keep servicing these ad hoc requests, can you consider giving "ownership" of that page to the current maintainer(s) of BBDB? Would that be possible? Regards, Sriram On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Sriram ET. wro

Re: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah

2012-04-11 Thread Sriram ET.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Roland Winkler wrote: > On Tue Apr 10 2012 SourceForge.net Support wrote: > > There's a link at the top of the project summary page indicating the > > new location now. > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbdb/ Dear Sourceforge maintainers, Thanks for putti

Re: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah

2012-04-11 Thread Roland Winkler
On Wed Apr 11 2012 Sriram ET. wrote: > We should make it easy for people to find relevant and recent > information about BBDB. The page that the sourceforge maintainers > have edited with a link to savanah > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbdb/) does not appear on the > first page of a Google or

Re: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah

2012-04-11 Thread Sriram ET.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Roland Winkler wrote: > On Wed Apr 11 2012 Sriram ET. wrote: > > Roland, Just fyi - the first result on a Google Search is this > > page: http:// bbdb.sourceforge.net/ Do you think it makes sense > > to request that to be taken down? > > I do not know how google

Re: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah

2012-04-11 Thread Roland Winkler
On Wed Apr 11 2012 Sriram ET. wrote: > Roland, Just fyi - the first result on a Google Search is this > page:  http:// bbdb.sourceforge.net/ Do you think it makes sense > to request that to be taken down? I do not know how google comes up with its ranking. Yet I do not believe it would make sense

Re: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah

2012-04-10 Thread Sriram ET.
Roland, Just fyi - the first result on a Google Search is this page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/ Do you think it makes sense to request that to be taken down? -Sriram On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Roland Winkler wrote: > On Tue Apr 10 2012 SourceForge.net Support wrote: > > There's a link a

Re: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah

2012-04-10 Thread Roland Winkler
On Tue Apr 10 2012 SourceForge.net Support wrote: > There's a link at the top of the project summary page indicating the > new location now. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbdb/ Thanks a lot! Roland -- Better than

BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah

2012-04-07 Thread Roland Winkler
Dear Sourceforge Maintainers I'd appreciate if you could add a note on the sourceforge website of BBDB saying that BBDB development has shifted to http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/bbdb Development of BBDB on sourceforge has ceased for four years. The biggest problem is that the sourceforge mai