Geary development is stalled since months and I’m unable to contact Michael Gratton.
Is there someone else maintaining Geary ?
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AFAIK, Micheal had to step back from active maintenance of Geary, and nobody has picked up the project.
I sent him a mail a few months ago to ask if he’s okay, but I haven’t heard anything from him back unfortunately 
I think at this point it’s safe to assume he won’t be back soon and that Geary is currently unmaintained. I’ve thought about trying to give it some love and maintaining it since it holds a special place for me personally (being the project that got me into GNOME so many years ago), but I really can’t find the time to do so for the moment.
If anybody wants to step up as maintainer but nervous about experience, we will find a mentor. Geary has so much potential!
With a mentor, I would be happy to take this task. I already have too small merge requests pending since months.
I also think Geary should replace it internal mail backend with libcamel. Current engine is buggy and this will help a lot maintenance. Elementary Mail (Geary fork) did this years ago with success.
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This is interesting.
I’d like to test Elementary Mail on Fedora. I see that I can simply add Elementary flatpak remote:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists --system appcenter https://flatpak.elementary.io/repo.flatpakrepo
The app is avaible as a Fedora package:
dnf install elementary-mail
Doh! Thanks (btw, the flatpak app does not launch, error while loading shared libraries…).
First impressions:
- The filter icon to hide read and/or unstarred conversations is a nice idea.
- Mail is showing my Gmail account emails despite the fact I’ve disabled Email in GNOME Online Account Settings. I guess the answer is in the next link: Mail pulls the account from the same backend used by Evolution.
- Clicking on Account settings does not open any window. It seems to be a GNOME Control Center missing feature. In a comment of 4 years ago it’s said that GNOME Control Center does not support
settings://URLs.
Who do I need to contact for ask for access? How to find a mentor ?
Already started working on fixing issues:
I’ve contacted @gnumdk:matrix.org. Is that your current Matrix address?
Geary is in the GNOME group, which means only people with a GNOME LDAP account can have commit access to the repository.
If you have a GNOME LDAP account, you can simply modify the geary.doap file in the repository and add yourself.
If you don’t have a GNOME LDAP account, you’ll have to ask for one.
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Hi folks! I’d like to join Geary development team.
I have little expirience with vala, but with help from folks at WebKit and Gnome channels I managed to fix a bug, but there’s nobody to accept PR.
@gnumdk btw, how’s your plans? I see some some unfinished PR’s…
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The current maintainers are Cedric, who you’ve already pinged, and also @nielsdg.
Looks like you failed to get in touch with the current maintainers? Or if you did, then nothing came of it?
There is The state of maintainership (#1678) · Issues · GNOME / Geary · GitLab now, with another developer looking to help. Would be good to leave a comment there to introduce yourself.
No, @partizan has been actively contributing to discussions in the Geary matrix channel, and has been a great help in filing new MRs 
I’m not sure how you came to that conclusion, if you just take a quick look at some of their recently merged MRs 
In any case, my apologies for not replying here. On a personal level, the last year has been extremely wild and I’ve been doing a less than stellar job as a maintainer.
Geary is a very large and very complex project, with a lot of logic to deal with modern emails (which can be a massive PITA), and is written in a language that has its own issues. A couple of months back, @partizan actually contacted me and I figured I either should give up my maintainer’s position in Geary, or should try to make an active effort again. Given the size of the project, I figured I’d give it some love, since there’s a large learning curve for others, so I started working on a big lift that helped me to get very familiar with the whole code base again, which is to start a GTK4 port, which I hope to have in a workable state by early GNOME 50 cycle, so hopefully we can shake out most of the regressions by the time the alpha comes around.
My suggestion to anyone who reads this and is interested in contributing, is to join the Geary Matrix channel so we can check what’s up next (don’t expect same-day replies though from me 
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The Matrix channel is private.
At this point, why is Geary and Elementary Mail being developed separately, when it seems that Geary does not have sufficient developers? Are there major differences in the visions of the Geary developers and the elementaryOS developers? Additionally, are there major differences in what is implemented in Geary and in Elementary Mail?