On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 7:18 PM Alejandro Colomar <a...@kernel.org> wrote: > - Does the mailing list have any way to follow threads without cutting > them at month boundary? glibc (and other GNU projects, like GCC) > started using recently public-inbox, which has a nicer interface, > IMO. Maybe groff could also use it.
This isn't a function of the mailing list itself, but of the software that archives it. (That is, if you're subscribed to the list, you can organize list emails however you like in your mailbox without arbitrary breaks at month boundaries.) I agree the way the archival software works is less than ideal. It's not limited to the groff lists: it affects the thousands of lists archived at http://lists.gnu.org/r/, which amounts to hundreds of thousands of URLs that already have month-year baked into them and would have to continue to work under any new archival process (since they're so often cited). This isn't something I care enough about to try to change. But I'll second you in any lobbying effort you want to make. :) The archiver is run by GNU folks, and if other GNU lists have already switched to a better one, there seems a decent chance you could convince them to switch the groff lists. > - Does the bug tracker have a way to interact with it via mail? It does not. This was requested years ago (http://savannah.nongnu.org/support/index.php?106712) but the request was closed without explanation. I posted a query there asking about this. You could open a new request in the "Savannah trackers - bugs, tasks, etc." category. My guess is they don't have the development bandwidth to take on such an extensive change.
