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Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 18

From
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Date
Aug 16, 2016, 22:32 UTC
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:27:04PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
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> Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:30:27AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > It'd be nice if it had a prominent list of all lists available; as far
> > as I can tell, the main page has no link to /git/.
> 
> I'm not sure that's necessary; most of the traffic seems to come
> from /git/MESSAGE_ID/ links posted by others.  So it's
> probably more inside-out exposure than anything.

If someone hears about public-inbox, it's nice to know what other lists they can use it for.

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> As for other projects, I'm not aware of anybody else using it,
> yet.  I have some small projects using it, but most of those are
> one-off throwaways and I'm not comfortable promoting those along
> with public-inbox.  I admit: I'm not comfortable promoting
> anything I do, really.

Please take this as encouragement to do so. I'd love to see the public-inbox equivalent to the main page of https://lists.debian.org/ , as an example. (And I'd love to have public-inbox archives of Debian mailing lists.)

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Message 15 of 17 in “Draft of Git Rev News edition 18”
  1. Christian CouderAug 14, 2016
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2016
  3. Christian CouderAug 15, 2016
  4. Philip OakleyAug 14, 2016
  5. Eric WongAug 14, 2016
  6. Philip OakleyAug 14, 2016
  7. Eric WongAug 14, 2016
  8. Eric WongAug 18, 2016
  9. Christian CouderAug 15, 2016
  10. Jakub NarębskiAug 15, 2016
  11. Jakub NarębskiAug 15, 2016
  12. Eric WongAug 16, 2016
  13. Josh TriplettAug 16, 2016
  14. Eric WongAug 16, 2016
  15. Josh TriplettAug 16, 2016
  16. Eric WongSep 7, 2016
  17. Christian CouderAug 16, 2016

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