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From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: "Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>,
	"Christian Couder" <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen" <tfnico@gmail.com>,
	"Nicola Paolucci" <durden@gmail.com>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>,
	"Michael Haggerty" <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
	"Ramsay Jones" <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>,
	"remi galan-alfonso" <remi.galan-alfonso@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>,
	"Johannes Sixt" <j6t@kdbg.org>,
	"Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>,
	"Lars Schneider" <larsxschneider@gmail.com>,
	meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 18
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 15:32:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160816223215.GC17195@cloud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160816212704.GA25034@dcvr>

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:27:04PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:30:27AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > > Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > It's a great pity that https://public-inbox.org/ is just
> > > > directory index, not a true home page.
> > > 
> > > +Cc meta@public-inbox.org
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure one could do better while staying true to the
> > > minimalist nature of plain-text email.
> > > 
> > > In the spirit of decentralization, there may not be /a/
> > > homepage, but many.   Everything is meant to clonable with each
> > > public-inbox, so maybe every public-inbox will have a code
> > > branch attached to it with the source+docs bundled.
> > 
> > It'd be nice if it had a prominent list of all lists available; as far
> > as I can tell, the main page has no link to /git/.
> 
> I'm not sure that's necessary; most of the traffic seems to come
> from /git/MESSAGE_ID/ links posted by others.  So it's
> probably more inside-out exposure than anything.

If someone hears about public-inbox, it's nice to know what other lists
they can use it for.

> As for other projects, I'm not aware of anybody else using it,
> yet.  I have some small projects using it, but most of those are
> one-off throwaways and I'm not comfortable promoting those along
> with public-inbox.  I admit: I'm not comfortable promoting
> anything I do, really.

Please take this as encouragement to do so.  I'd love to see the
public-inbox equivalent to the main page of https://lists.debian.org/ ,
as an example.  (And I'd love to have public-inbox archives of Debian
mailing lists.)

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-16 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAP8UFD1iveotLsMOBnpa=hU4ohcQjZ-X7tjnzY4k+xz5KJvqBw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <D5A2E231FFE74D1C891A1653E1C2D797@PhilipOakley>
     [not found]   ` <9f3b254f-451e-4f6d-233c-7e995d8e369e@gmail.com>
2016-08-16  9:30     ` Draft of Git Rev News edition 18 Eric Wong
2016-08-16  9:34       ` Josh Triplett
2016-08-16 21:27         ` Eric Wong
2016-08-16 22:32           ` Josh Triplett [this message]
2016-09-07  1:08             ` Eric Wong

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