From: Damien Robert <damien.olivier.robert+gmane@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 21:39:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow
Message-ID: <m5aq2s$njj$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <547897F4.5000305@xiplink.com>

> A bot could subscribe to the list and create branches in a public repo.
> (This idea feels familiar -- didn't somebody attempt this already?)

Thomas Rast maintains git notes that link git commits to their gmane
discussion, you can get them with

[remote "mailnotes"]
  url = git://github.com/trast/git.git
  fetch = refs/heads/notes/*:refs/notes/*

There is gmane branch and a message-id branch, its pretty usefull.