public-inbox for gcc lists

[Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>]

Hi gcc-hackers,

Given that gcc is part of the sourceware family the mailinglists are
now also available through the public-inbox instance at 
https://inbox.sourceware.org/

In particular:

https://inbox.sourceware.org/fortran
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-announce
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-help
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-rust
https://inbox.sourceware.org/jit
https://inbox.sourceware.org/libstdc++

There are also archives of some older not used anymore lists in case
people are interested in some history (we are aware that some of these
older lists contain spam, we will try to remove that). And some of the
automated lists like testresults, prs, cvs, etc. (but without full text
search, please use bugzilla, git or bunsen for that).

Note that you can now mirror these mailinglists through git (see the
mirror instructions on each list), there is an atom link to follow the
lists, you can download mboxes of search results and there are read-
only nntp news and imap archives of each list (in the inbox.gcc.*
hierarchy).

To handle patches you might want to look at b4 or piem for emacs:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/tree/man/b4.5.rst
https://git.kyleam.com/piem
https://docs.kyleam.com/piem.html

You will want the following in your .git/config:

[b4]
    midmask = https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches/%s
    linkmask = https://inbox.sourceware.org.org/gcc-patches/%s

There are currently some known issues:

- Message-IDs can contain slashes ('/') which are sometimes
  encoded as %2F. If you got an URL with "%2F" in the path change
  it to an actual '/' character to workaround it
  (which doesn't work if the Message-ID ends with a / which is
   the case for bugzilla generated emails).
  We are looking to see if we can get the slash handling more
  consistent.

- HTML emails aren't accepted. Even if the list would strip the
  text/html part. Please don't sent HTML email. We are looking
  at stripping the HTML part and only importing the text/plain
  part into public-inbox.

- Messages send to gcc-patches are sometimes not fully indexed,
  which
means they won't show up when doing a full text search,
  but they are
functional in all other ways that matter. We'll
  reindex the list
periodically and look into why this is
  happening (gcc-patches is the
largest list we have and we
  might just hit some limit).

Your friendly sourceware overseers team (with special thanks to Simon
Marchi for showing how to setup public-inbox and to Frank Eigler for
making sure the sourceware infrastructure was ready).

P.S. 
inbox.sourceware.org is one part of the Sourceware GNU Toolchain
Infrastructure roadmap to make email/git based workflow more fun,
secure and productive by automating contribution tracking and testing
across different distros and architectures:
https://inbox.sourceware.org/overseers/YrLdfDWzq1T4k5xg@wildebeest.org/

There will be a Sourceware GNU Toolchain Infrastructure and beyond BoF
at the Cauldron next month for everybody who likes to discuss (and
wants to help with) automating the infrastructure to make contributing
to our projects more fun and more productive:
https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2022#cauldron2022talks.sourceware_gnu_toolchain_infrastructure_and_beyond