Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 18

From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Aug 16, 2016, 09:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20160816093027.GA27347@dcvr>
In-Reply-To: <9f3b254f-451e-4f6d-233c-7e995d8e369e@gmail.com>

Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's a great pity that https://public-inbox.org/ is just
> directory index, not a true home page.

+Cc meta@public-inbox.org

I'm not sure one could do better while staying true to the minimalist nature of plain-text email.

In the spirit of decentralization, there may not be /a/ homepage, but many. Everything is meant to clonable with each public-inbox, so maybe every public-inbox will have a code branch attached to it with the source+docs bundled.

At least for now, other pages are more easily discoverable[1] but one day I hope to have repobrowse[2] running there (and maybe everywhere).

For now, I am prioritizing user/admin/hacker documentation so more instances can exist. I'll probably get some online help stuff up tomorrow.

[1] at least the top-level of public-inbox.org already has more
    content than both YHBT.net and bogomips.org combined :)

[2] git clone -b repobrowse https://public-inbox.org/ ...
    (idle the moment: think cgit|gitweb with the same (lack of)
     style as public-inbox, +search, +mail thread integration)