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kwerty / Gmail-Notifier

Kwerty Gmail Notifier for Windows 7 monitors your Gmail inbox and notifies you of new emails. It takes advantage of the latest Windows 7 UI elements such as the taskbar overlay icon, jump lists and thumbnail previews.
http://kwerty.com/Gmail-Notifier-for-Windows-7/
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Gmail Notifier Plus Attribution #7

Closed shellscape closed 10 years ago

shellscape commented 10 years ago

Cheers on a nice little app.

I couldn't help but notice that your app bares striking resemblance to Gmail Notifier Plus, which has been around since 2010 (and before that under a different maintainer). Here are some links for reference:

https://github.com/shellscape/Gmail-Notifier-Plus http://shellscape.org/#gnp http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=search&fromMainBar=1

As is accepted and proper etiquette in the open source and freeware communities, I'd like to encourage you to add an attribution of inspiration or some such to your readme which lets users know what app you were inspired by, or what elements from other apps you were inspired by.

If your app uses any code from Gmail Notifier Plus, the MIT license it's under doesn't require you to mention anything, but it's always nice to see :)

kwerty commented 10 years ago

Are you the new maintainer?

I will add an attribution on the website when I update it in the coming days.

I used Gmail Notifier Plus for probably 2-3 years myself, but it would occasionally crash with an Unmanaged Exception, do you know if that's something that has been resolved now?

Cheers

Tim

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Andrew Powell notifications@github.comwrote:

Cheers on a nice little app.

I couldn't help but notice that your app bares striking resemblance to Gmail Notifier Plus, which has been around since 2010 (and before that under a different maintainer). Here are some links for reference:

https://github.com/shellscape/Gmail-Notifier-Plus http://shellscape.org/#gnp

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=search&fromMainBar=1

As is accepted and proper etiquette in the open source and freeware communities, I'd like to encourage you to add an attribution of inspiration or some such to your readme which lets users know what app you were inspired by, or what elements from other apps you were inspired by.

If your app uses any code from Gmail Notifier Plus, the MIT license it's under doesn't require you to mention anything, but it's always nice to see :)

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/kwerty/Gmail-Notifier/issues/7 .

shellscape commented 10 years ago

New as of 2010, but yes I'm the maintainer :)

I'd imagine that's resolved. Haven't seen a bug report on that in ages (and haven't had an exception running it at home in recent memory). If you run into anything, please do file and issue here on github and I'll get it fixed up.

Thanks for being open to the attributon. It's much appreciated.

Cheers

kwerty commented 10 years ago

I've added the attribution. I just read the history of Gmail Notifier Plus on the GitHub page, I didn't realise that the original developer had disappeared. Is that the full story? How does a person disappear completely, he must have died yeah?

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Andrew Powell notifications@github.comwrote:

New as of 2010, but yes I'm the maintainer :)

I'd imagine that's resolved. Haven't seen a bug report on that in ages (and haven't had an exception running it at home in recent memory). If you run into anything, please do file and issue here on github and I'll get it fixed up.

Thanks for being open to the attributon. It's much appreciated.

Cheers

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/kwerty/Gmail-Notifier/issues/7#issuecomment-30696722 .

shellscape commented 10 years ago

Thanks for adding that. Much appreciated. That's the full story as I know it. No one with more information on why development was abandoned has come forward.

I checked out the readme and the github pages site but didn't see anything. Did that commit make it up there?

shellscape commented 10 years ago

@kwerty I had closed the issue by mistake (clicked the wrong button). Can you point me to where I can view the attribution you'd added? I was considering pointing to your app on my site, for folks that didn't need all of the additional features.

kwerty commented 10 years ago

At the bottom of the page http://kwerty.com/Gmail-Notifier-for-Windows-7/

shellscape commented 10 years ago

Ah thanks. I had missed that.