On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:37:50 +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote: > There are so many :-) > Its difficult to follow too many at any given time. But I often go > looking through mailing list archives in areas of the kernel I am > working on. You can quickly get a feel for how active the area is, > what people are working on, and even who is involved.
Speaking of mailing list archives, I find all of them very clunky to use. The other day, I wanted to follow the f2fs discussion on fsdevel@ / LKML, and I am not a subscriber of those ones. So, you have the choice with: * Gmane. Has a nice framed interface showing the threads, but it only shows 30 or 50 e-mails per page, and then to move between pages with a big drop down list with number from 1 to 9823987. It is /very/ unpractical to find something. * lkml.org. The representation of the thread on the left is very confusing, as it doesn't show the entire thread but only part of it, so you're quickly lost as to where you are in the thread. * spinics.net. This is the one I find the most usable in fact, just a basic mailing list archive. The only drawback is that threads are split by months so when a discussion spans a month boundary, it gets very difficult to follow the thread. * marc.info. Never understood how one could use this. No threading, only 20-30 e-mails shown per page, I think I never managed to find anything with marc.info. In the end, I end up subscribing to many mailing list, because I find my e-mail client to be a more efficient archive-browsing tool. But I'd really like to have a good and efficient web interface to navigate through mailing list archives. The other thing that bothers me is how difficult it is to go from one e-mail received from a public mailing list you're reading in your e-mail client to a link to that e-mail in the corresponding archives so that you can point others to this e-mail easily. It would be _really_ nice if mailing list software could support RFC5064 (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5064.txt) by adding an Archived-At: field in the e-mail headers, which directly contains a link to this e-mail in the online archive. RFC5064: 1. Introduction [RFC2369] defines a number of header fields that can be added to Internet messages such as those sent by email distribution lists or in netnews [RFC1036]. One of them is the List-Archive header field that describes how to access archives for the list. This allows access to the archives as a whole, but not an individual message. There is often a need or desire to refer to the archived form of a single message. For more detailed usage scenarios, please see Section 3.3. This memo defines a new header, Archived-At, to refer to a single message at an archived location. This provides quick access to the location of a mailing list message in the list archive. It can also be used independently of mailing lists, for example in connection with legal requirements to archive certain messages. It would be really great to have that, at least on all mailing list hosted at vger.kernel.org, and if possible other kernel mailing lists as well, such as the ones hosted at infradead.org. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com _______________________________________________ Celinux-dev mailing list Celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org https://lists.celinuxforum.org/mailman/listinfo/celinux-dev
