>> On Jul 31, 2016, at 15:42, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 31, 2016, at 3:40 PM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution 
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Gmane.org <http://gmane.org/> is shutting down. 
>>> http://ostatic.com/blog/mint-18-xfce-imminent-gmane-org-shutting-down 
>>> <http://ostatic.com/blog/mint-18-xfce-imminent-gmane-org-shutting-down> 
>>> writes:
>>> 
>>>> "Long time mailing list archive site Gmane.org <http://gmane.org/> is 
>>>> shutting down. Gmane has been the home for technical mailing list 
>>>> references since 2002. But it's no longer fun for founder and only 
>>>> maintainer Lars Ingebrigtsen. He's been sued in India and threatened with 
>>>> legal action in at least France, among other annoyances. The straw that 
>>>> broke Ingebrigtsen's back was a sustained denial of service 
>>>> <https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/> attack 
>>>> throughout the month of July. He's been wondering a lot lately if it's all 
>>>> worth it. So, he's decided 
>>>> <https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/comment-page-1/#comment-13502>
>>>>  to move the mail and news servers to new hosting. However, Ingebrigtsen 
>>>> is indeed discontinuing the web-based archive. He said he's just "fed up." 
>>>> He's willing to send a disk with the web server archives to anyone who 
>>>> wants to take it over. But with the Gmane.org <http://gmane.org/> web 
>>>> presence gone, it feels like the end of an era. There is much wailing and 
>>>> gnashing of teeth throughout the community with some even trying to get a 
>>>> petition started."
>>> 
>>> Because of this shutdown, numerous documents in the Swift Evolution github 
>>> archive no longer point to valid web links. I have pasted a list of gmane 
>>> links at the end of this message. As gmane's "robots.txt" disallowed 
>>> crawling, Google has not preserved the titles or text of the links, which 
>>> makes finding some of these a little tricky.
>>> 
>>> Here are the remaining links that are not yet converted. Please consider 
>>> adopting a proposal, tracking down its links, and mailing this thread with 
>>> the proposal number, gmane links and pipermail equivalents. Pipermail is 
>>> located at https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/ 
>>> <https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/>. Some of these may 
>>> refer to  build dev discussions instead of evolution ones. If you can, 
>>> please track down to the exact message for rationale, and the thread for 
>>> discussion and review links.
>> 
>> Completely agreed.  All of these should point to https://lists.swift.org 
>> <https://lists.swift.org/> (and always should have, exactly for reasons like 
>> this).  I’d appreciate any PRs to help clean up the evolution repo to point 
>> to https://lists.swift.org <https://lists.swift.org/> instead.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> -Chris

> On Jul 31, 2016, at 4:51 PM, Saagar Jha <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I’d be happy to help. I see 94 instances of “gmane", do we want to split it 
> up (since I see Erica is on it already)?
> 
> Saagar Jha

If you start from the end (most recent proposals) and work backwards, it will 
be a lot easier for me. Thanks! -- E

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