Am 03.10.2016 um 15:03 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: > Hi all, > > After the ConTeXt meeting, we were inventorying the old sub-sites > of contextgarden.net, in preparation of one or two new ones to appear > within the next months. > > One thing that we used to have was a site that ran the “Lurker” > software, providing dedicated searching of the mailing list archives > for context-related mailing lists. That site is now gone (it was > part of Patrick Gundlach’s server) and we are wondering whether > it makes sense to revive a site dedicated to mailing list searches. > > And if people are indeed interested, we could use some advice on what > software should we be using for the new site: > > * Lurker has not been updated since 2009, making it a fairly bad choice. > > * Mailman v2 has a horrible interface, and besides is not handling > long-running threads properly and has almost no support for attachments. > > * Mailman v3 uses HyperKitty as replacement for pipermail. The output > looks promising, but it is a Django application meant to be tightly > integrated with the actual mailman instance (at least that is my > understanding?) > > Surely there must be something better out there? Or maybe we should not > care at all and use Google indexing only like we do now on the wiki?
Recently I saw people using https://www.sympa.org From my point of view this is a solution for big mailinglists, but maybe you will find someone running an installation free for open source projects. juh ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
