Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-devel archive search was missing some messages but it's fixed now

[Ian Kelling <iank@fsf.org>]

Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> writes:

> Hello Ian,
>
> On 12/04/17 21:02, Ian Kelling wrote:
>
>> General thoughts about the archive: I'm looking forward to us upgrading
>> to mailman 3 at some point which will bring an improved archive
>> interface.
>
> Do you mean HyperKitty?

Yes.

>
> Will you seek out community feedback on it first?

Yes, of course. And I expect the old interface to continue to exist
alongside it indefinitely.

>
>> Of course, you can always download the archive and search it
>> on your local computer.
>
> The one HyperKitty instance that I can readily look at is:
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/
>
> It only offers the following download options:
>
> - "Past 30 days (mbox)"
> - "This month (mbox)"
> - "Entire archive (mbox)"
>
> Maybe it's configurable site by site, but I find this lacking compared
> to: "download whichever month you want, in isolation", which is offered
> by mailman2:
>
> ftp://lists.gnu.org/qemu-devel/
>
> If someone needs it all, the latter remains easy to script with wget,
> for example.
>
> (Back to my original point -- judged similarly from the fedora devel
> archive, I find HyperKitty hardly usable for normal reading, and I think
> it will completely fail for patch series threads and the discussions
> under them. HyperKitty is a step towards social media in my opinion, and
> as such inappropriate for development lists (again, IMO). I'm happy to
> learn otherwise, of course -- are there good counter-examples where
> HyperKitty has worked out fine, for archiving email-based patch traffic
> and development discussion?)
>
> NB: my opinion on this likely doesn't matter, as I'm not a heavy
> qemu-devel contributor.

And you've given some reasons why :)

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