Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 18

From: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 15, 2016, 18:08 UTC
Message-ID: <9f3b254f-451e-4f6d-233c-7e995d8e369e@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <D5A2E231FFE74D1C891A1653E1C2D797@PhilipOakley>

W dniu 14.08.2016 o 23:10, Philip Oakley pisze:

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> From: "Christian Couder" <christian.couder@gmail.com>
>>
>> A draft of a new Git Rev News edition is available here:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-18.md
>>
>> Everyone is welcome to contribute in any section either by editing the
>> above page on GitHub and sending a pull request, or by commenting on
>> this GitHub issue:
>>
>>  https://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/170
>>
>> You can also reply to this email.
> 
> I see you mention in passing (well 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/.

It would be nice to turn it into mini-story rather than just putting a link.

Additional references / information:

* "Alternatives to mid.gmane.org?" thread, starting with
  Message-Id: <481D1EE2-6A66-418F-AB28-95947BBF3680@gmail.com>

  Mentions a few alternatives besides public-inbox:

     https://marc.info/?i=%s
     https://mid.mail-archive.com/%s
     https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/%s

  for finding message based on Message-Id

  NOTE: there are a few mailing list archive sites not mentioned
  in this thread, like Nabble, some of them listed on (not updated)
  https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitCommunity

* "Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?" short note / article on LWN.net,
  https://lwn.net/Articles/695695/ [Posted July 28, 2016 by jake],
  part of "Announcements" (http://lwn.net/Articles/695980/) section
  of LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 4, 2016 
  (http://lwn.net/Articles/695974/)

> I've found it very useful and probably easier to use.
> (now I've seen https://public-inbox.org/design_www.html)

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

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Jakub Narębski