From: stanley lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: State of the 9front mailing list archives
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 14:23:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CB4DF950-B032-44E9-9962-E6FBB79AFE6F@stanleylieber.com> (raw)
I skimmed IRC backlog this morning and noticed people complaining again about the cumbersome 9P interface and lack of web access to the mailing list archives.
The following are some notes about the future of the archive:
- A ctl file offering search functionality has been exposed through the 9P share (9fs 9front; ls /n/lists) for some time. Presently, the automatic indexing that powers the search feature is broken. Once that is fixed and tested a command for searching the archive will be published, most likely by being added to 9front.
- A werc app was written to present a web interface to the existing archive (sans search). It works pretty well but tanks performance of the system under normal (webcrawler) load. It is currently disabled pending review.
- There was some discussion on IRC about how the messages are stored, and someone offered to have the archive added to gmane. If would be very happy to facilitate this if the interested parties would send me an e-mail so we can begin the process. For future reference, messages are stored on disk in nupas' mdir format, one file per mesage. It is trivial to convert these files between mdir and mbox, or basically any other format.
Ironically, while I was not around to correct misconceptions during this latest iteration of the discussion on IRC, I'm pretty sure I've explained all of the above to these people at least once, on IRC. Obviously, some other venue for exchanging information and storing it in a persistent, searchable format is required.
Gmane seems like a great interim solution.
sl
next reply other threads:[~2016-06-03 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-03 18:23 stanley lieber [this message]
2016-06-03 18:29 ` [9front] " cinap_lenrek
2016-06-03 18:45 ` stanley lieber
2016-06-03 20:27 ` cinap_lenrek
2016-06-04 6:31 ` BurnZeZ
2016-06-04 14:54 ` Benjamin Purcell
2016-06-04 21:35 ` arisawa
2016-06-03 18:51 ` Kurt H Maier
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