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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>
To: qrasmfu8f4--- via Overseers <overseers@sourceware.org>
Cc: qrasmfu8f4@snkmail.com
Subject: Re: Where to report issues with the new mailing list software?
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 23:04:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200420030449.GA3458@cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5124-1587349884-115608@sneakemail.com>

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 07:31:21PM -0700, qrasmfu8f4--- via Overseers wrote:
>I've noticed several annoyances (maybe problems, but certainly
>regressions) with the new mailing list software.
>
> * The "by date", "by subject", and "by author" views of the archives
>   seem to be stripping the "Re:" that is typically at the beginning of
>   the subject of an email replace, which makes it more difficult to
>   see which messages are replies in those views.
> * The :by date" view of the archives doesn't separate the messages by
>   day any more, so you have to click on a bunch of messages to find
>   the messages for a particular day of the month.
> * I don't see any link or page for searching the archives.  This is
>   particularly important since https://cygwin.com/lists.html asks
>   folks to search the archives before sending a message to the lists,
>   and says "click on a mailing list name below to search the archive",
>   but clicking on the mailing list name takes you to a page that
>   doesn't appear to have any way to search.
>
>Would it be possible to change the configuration of the mailing list
>software to address these issues?

The archives use the standard mailman format.  We don't plan on making
site-specific modifications to mailman since we want to employ to only
supported software, unlike the previous incarnation of
sourceware.org/gcc.gnu.org/cygwin.com.

This has been discussed many times since we switched to new hardware and
a newer OS release.  In a perfect world we wouldn't have to keep
answering these types of questions.  I guess we must need a FAQ.

We haven't implemented mailing list search yet and maybe not ever.

The easiest way I've found to search is to google:

site:sourceware.org <keywords to search for>


  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-20  3:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-20  2:31 qrasmfu8f4
2020-04-20  3:04 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2020-04-20  7:43   ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-04-20 10:32     ` Frank Ch. Eigler

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