Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 18
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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.)