From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79469 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus sync Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:24:36 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <87mxghgz17.fsf@dod.no> References: <9uhb77o73s.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> <87wrg3v0yi.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87boxebh2q.fsf@dod.no> <871uyajgxw.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zkkmkk5i.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310625623 6872 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2011 06:40:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:40:23 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27765@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jul 14 08:40:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QhFat-00049N-J4 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:40:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QhFMD-0003FO-6m; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QhFMB-0003F7-RY for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:25:07 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QhFM0-0008Km-NL for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:25:07 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QhFLx-0004aP-Rm for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:24:53 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QhFLx-0005xV-On for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:24:53 +0200 Original-Received: from 178.16.69.64 ([178.16.69.64]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:24:53 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by 178.16.69.64 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:24:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 178.16.69.64 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:S9LzbE4xd/OO0vZcYvSlj42iLA4= X-Spam-Score: -3.7 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79469 Archived-At: >>>>> Steinar Bang : [snip!] > If you GET a server, eg. > https://myserver/gnussync/backends/nntp/news.gmane.org > you will get a list with two members "parameters" and "groups" > I haven't given much thought to the behaviour of > https://myserver/gnussync/backends/nntp/news.gmane.org/parameters [snip!] > If you GET a group, you will get a lisp, or JSON list containing two > members: "parameters" and "marks". > I haven't given much thought to the behaviours of group parameters, like > eg. > https://myserver/gnussync/backends/nntp/news.gmane.org/groups/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/parameters [snip!] When I think about it, and as was discussed in a recent thread, the contents here, is something I really would prefer to see managed by a VCS (like my .emacs and .gnus.el files are...). On the other hand, one of the "cloud(y) gnus" requirements, was that distributing everything gnus to a priestine gnus should "just work". And that would definitely include the server and group parameters into what should be synced... hm...