Changes in Mail-list to Web integration.

Changes in Mail-list to Web integration.

[Iain Sandoe]

Hi Folks,

thanks for the work to migrate to the new server.

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In the transition, I observe some changes to the integration of mail with  
the web-pages.

In particular, my existing links seem to point now to:

https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gxxxxxxx

If I reconnect from the GCC front page, following the mail-list links, I  
get to a pipemail archive in which the “date ordered” list is different in  
two important respects from the so-called “legacy” version.

see, for example:

https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc-patches/2020-03/

c.f.

https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2020-March/date.html

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The formatting is not (to me) so much of an issue, but the separation of  
days and (for me and some others who commented on irc anyway) the “most  
recent first” presentation is very useful and it would be good to get that  
restored.

was the change intentional or just a ‘glitch’ in the transition?

thanks
Iain

Re: Changes in Mail-list to Web integration.

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 09:45, Iain Sandoe via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> The formatting is not (to me) so much of an issue,

I frequently scanned down the right edge of the page looking for
specific email addresses. That's harder to do when the addresses
aren't right-aligned, but I guess I'll get used to it.

>but the separation of
> days and (for me and some others who commented on irc anyway) the “most
> recent first” presentation is very useful and it would be good to get that
> restored.

Yes, for the gcc-bugs, gcc-cvs and libstdc++-cvs archives having
newest first is maybe not essential, but much, much more convenient.

Also https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-bugs/current/ now redirects to
March-2020/thread.html not March-2020/date.html (which would be closer
to the old behaviour).

And as reported on IRC:

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/ used to redirect to
https://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html but now goes to
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail which gives 403 Forbidden.

https://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html#subscribe doesn't work now. Submitting
a subscription request with that form gives a "403 Forbidden" error.

Re: Changes in Mail-list to Web integration.

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 09:56, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 09:45, Iain Sandoe via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> > The formatting is not (to me) so much of an issue,
>
> I frequently scanned down the right edge of the page looking for
> specific email addresses. That's harder to do when the addresses
> aren't right-aligned, but I guess I'll get used to it.
>
> >but the separation of
> > days and (for me and some others who commented on irc anyway) the “most
> > recent first” presentation is very useful and it would be good to get that
> > restored.
>
> Yes, for the gcc-bugs, gcc-cvs and libstdc++-cvs archives having
> newest first is maybe not essential, but much, much more convenient.
>
> Also https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-bugs/current/ now redirects to
> March-2020/thread.html not March-2020/date.html (which would be closer
> to the old behaviour).

It looks like I can use
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-bugs/current/date.html#end to get
the current date archive, and jump to the newest posts.

So that's what I'll use in my pinned browser tab that I keep
refreshing to see new bug mail.