FYI.
Jason Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2007-11-04 10:56:51 PM: > PMCs, could you please send this announcement to your various users@ and > devs@ mailing lists, as appropriate for your particular community. > > And please, if you think it proper, add a link to MarkMail on your > project web site as an option for searching your project's email > archives. You can point to http://<project>.markmail.org. > > ---- > > (A forwarded email from Jason Hunter) > > For the last few months I've been working on a new project: a web > site for interacting with email archives. We're using, as the > site's initial content set, the public Apache mailing list archives > -- because Apache is the community I know best and I think people > here will find the site useful. We've loaded a bit over 4,000,000 > emails across 500 lists. > > http://apache.markmail.org > > As you'll see with the chart on the home page, one of our goals with > the site has been to focus heavily on analytics. We have lots of > graphs and counts, and you're able to use them to watch Apache's > historical growth and each individual project's growth. Every query > you write gets its own histogram chart. > > Another goal has been interactivity. Every search result screen gives > you lots of ways to refine your search (by sender, list, attachment > type, etc). Plus we did a lot with keyboard shortcuts. You can hit > "n" and "p" to move to the next and previous result and "j" and "k" to > move up and down the thread view. There's a lot of little things like > this. Plus if your result message includes Office or PDF files > they're in-line interactive too. > > http://apache.markmail.org/search/ext:ppt+axis > > Another goal has been to focus on community. We could have launched > MarkMail with 50,000,000 emails from many sources but I think it's > better to start with focus. In fact, I'll be at ApacheCon and the > Hackathon next week, along with my co-developer Ryan Grimm, > looking for people's suggestions and maybe on the spot adding in a > few of them. There's also potential to explore some fun one-off > analytics, too. > > As part of the focus on communities, we setup MarkMail so it > recognizes that Apache itself consists of many communities. If you go > to http://apache.markmail.org you search all Apache emails, but if you > go to http://struts.markmail.org then you're auto-limited to just > Struts lists. Same for tomcat, spamassassin, httpd, and so on. You > can always limit your search using "list:struts" in your query, but > using the domain handles that a bit more elegantly. > > I've been working on this a long time, and I'm so happy to be able to > share it with everyone. I hope you all find this useful! > > Notes on using the site: > > * Search using keywords as well as from:, subject:, extension:, and > list: constraints > > * The GUI doesn't yet expose it, but you can negate any search item, > like -subject:jira. > > * You can sort results by date by adding order:date-forward or > order:date-backward to your query > > * Remember to use "n" and "p" keyboard shortcuts to navigate the search > results > > * You're going to want JavaScript enabled > > If you'd like to send me private feedback I'm jhunter at apache dot org. > > -jh- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
