Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 18

From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Aug 14, 2016, 23:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20160814235722.GA9605@starla>
In-Reply-To: <979EDD785BDC4C16A51CEBBD991B3A5D@PhilipOakley>

Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:

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> From: "Eric Wong" <e@80x24.org>
> >Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:
> >>From: "Christian Couder" <christian.couder@gmail.com>
> >>>You can also reply to this email.
> >>
> >>I see you mention in passing (weel in the small headings near the bottom)
> >>that gmane web interface has gone away. It may be worth noting a few of
> >>the
> >>alternatives, and in particular Eric's newly updated public-inbox
> >>https://public-inbox.org/git/.
> >
> >Thanks,
> 
> Would including a 'help' link on the main pages be possible?

Yes, there'll definitely be online help with generic instructions and also instructions specific to each instance so things like "gmane:N" can be documented.

There's also bunch of search prefixes I need to document, like "s:" for subject and whatever the built-in timestamp/date range parser for Xapian is. I keep forgetting the Xapian query syntax myself!