Re: vger not relaying some of Junio's messages today?

From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: May 6, 2017, 21:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20170506214223.GA28534@starla>
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX42rhmrq8z0u1aRXw87oT22YywwnaFHUMjDYgtE_i56nw@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks a lot for public-inbox, my only problem with it is that it
> doesn't cover every single mailing list I'm on, just git :)

Yes, I'm hoping more folks can start running their own instances. I notice you're on p5p where I started to occasionally lurk a few years back. Is that something you'd be interesting in mirroring? :)

Some lists I'm involved in tend to be centralized (reply-to-list, not reply-to-all); so UI changes will be needed in public-inbox...

> Are you or someone else maintaining some ancillary scripts for it? I
> probably need to fix my patch workflow but my usual mode is browsing
> in GMail & then manually 'git am'-ing some file I find with git-log
> commands.

Not really. I started out ssoma(*) just for archival/mirroring, but it's mostly forgotten at this point. I would rather people build on existing protocols like NNTP.

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> I have one to git am a patch from a msgid, thought I should write
> something to handle a series in some DWIM fashion (e.g. apply the
> latest continuous sequence of patches matching --author) but figured
> that someone's probably wrote this already & I don't need to hack it
> up myself...

I've been meaning to wire up the web search to allow downloading an entire mbox worth of search results. But it could be a bit expensive for some queries and there needs to be a limit. The current limit for web display is too small; so maybe 1000 messages per-mbox at a time to avoid DoS-ing the server.

(*) some-sort-of-mail archiver: git clone git://80x24.org/ssoma