* [[Notmuch manual pages|manpages]]
* [[General how-tos|howto]]
- * [[Available frontends|frontends]]
* [[Searching]]
* [[Excluding and deleting messages|excluding]]
* [[Initial tagging|Initial_Tagging]]
Apart from the wiki, help is available via email and on IRC (see
below). Join the mailing list. Read the archives. Ask questions.
+## Email clients and front ends
+
+Notmuch ships with a powerful set of [[command-line tools|manpages]], an
+[[email client for Emacs|emacstips]], another
+[client for vim](http://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch/blob/HEAD:/vim/README),
+and a [[Mutt integration script|notmuch-mutt]].
+
+There are also many other [[email clients and frontends|frontends]] based on
+Notmuch.
+
## Screenshots
* [[Emacs UI screenshots|screenshots]]
-## Packages
+## Obtaining Notmuch
+
+[Notmuch source releases](http://notmuchmail.org/releases/) are available as
+source tar balls.
-* [Debian](http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=notmuch)
- Please use at least the packages from squeeze-backports, squeeze
- packages are very outdated!
+Notmuch is packaged for the following distributions:
+
+* [Debian](http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=notmuch) (Please use at
+ least the packages from squeeze-backports, squeeze packages are very
+ outdated!)
* [Fedora](https://community.dev.fedoraproject.org/packages/notmuch)
* [Gentoo](http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-mail/notmuch)
* [Slackware](http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/office/notmuch/)
* [Ubuntu](http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=notmuch)
-## Source code
+## Development and Contributing
All of the code for Notmuch is available as [free
software](http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html) released
to watch every commit made to notmuch and the notmuchmail.org web
site.
-Here are
-[source tar balls of notmuch releases](http://notmuchmail.org/releases/).
-
We have a [buildbot](http://buildbot.notmuchmail.org/grid) (here's
-it's
+its
[configuration](https://github.com/tomprince/buildbot-configs/tree/notmuch)).
-## Bug-tracking and patches
+Contributions, such as patches, to Notmuch are most welcome. Please refer to the
+[[guide to contributing|contributing]].
-Patches are most welcome and should be sent to notmuch@notmuchmail.org.
-Please try to follow the [[patch submission guidelines|patchformatting]]
-when submitting patches.
+## Bug and patch tracking
The tagging and filtering features of notmuch make it quite suitable
for use as a bug- and patch-tracker. We are currently experimenting
with using it for this purpose for notmuch development, using a
-utility called [[nmbug]]. The status of current patches can also be
+utility called [[nmbug]]. The status of bugs and current patches can also be
followed [online](http://nmbug.tethera.net/status).
+Bug reports should be sent to the Notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org.
+
## Contact: Email & IRC
Comments? Please feel free to email the notmuch mailing list: