45mg <45mg.wri...@gmail.com> writes: > I strongly feel that the Guix project itself needs to maintain a > permanent (read-only) archive of all its mailing lists, and ensure that > it is searchable and downloadable.
The bug-guix and guix-patches mailing lists are special in that they are only used as the entry point for the bug tracker. The suboptimal list web interface is not how people are meant to interact with the archive. The submissions to this mailing list are processed by Debbugs; past submissions will remain visible in Debbugs, both via the SOAP interface (used by debbugs.el) and the web interface. > I'm actually fine with sunsetting issues.guix.gnu.org; while it was a > significant improvement over the list archives, it still needed a lot > more love. Moreover, it was fundamentally trying to turn threaded email > discussions into flat lists of messages, with mixed results. Minor correction: it did not try that; it merely meant to provide a more usable, focused, and integrated alternative to https://bugs.gnu.org or https://debbugs.gnu.org, neither of which shows threads. > There's one more potential consequence of this GCD that I want to bring > up - namely, the eventual stagnation of the discussion mailing lists > (guix-devel and help-guix). These mailing lists will continue to exist. This is about the patch submission / review / merge workflow. > I'm not bringing this up because I want to preserve the mailing lists at > all costs; rather, I'm suggesting that we switch away from them as > well. [...] Let's please not discuss this within the context of this GCD. If we cannot focus our attention on the already big subject of this GCD, we will only get lost in the minutia of tangentially related issues without getting any closer to action. -- Ricardo
