Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 18

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 15, 2016, 06:16 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD2Keig92stsNsQwm-xQWDU4SS3NoonnLG_swWzLdE4Xnw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160814231000.GB12202@dcvr>

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 1:10 AM, Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:

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> Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:
>> From: "Christian Couder" <christian.couder@gmail.com>
>> >You can also reply to this email.
>>
>> I see you mention in passing (weel 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/.
>
> Thanks, I will also add that existing gmane links can be looked up
> in instance I maintain via:
>
>         public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:123456

Yeah, I agree that we really needed to add something about public-inbox, so I added the following:

@@ -147,7 +147,13 @@ __Light reading__

 __Git tools and sites__

-* Gmane (a mailing list archive that was used heavily by some Git
developers) [shut down its web
site](https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/comment-page-1/#comment-13502).
+* Gmane (a mailing list archive that was used heavily by some Git developers)
+[shut down its web
site](https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/comment-page-1/#comment-13502).
+* [public-inbox](https://public-inbox.org/), which is under heavy
developement by Eric Wong, has
+[a git archive](https://public-inbox.org/git/) that is now used a lot
instead of Gmane.
+[It allows](https://public-inbox.org/design_www.html) looking up
+existing Gmane links using their Gmane id with URLs like
+`http://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:123456`.

 ## Credits

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(See: https://github.com/git/git.github.io/commit/66d72b0bd9ef38587dd7d5c4c6825a7984f2f2af)

Thanks!