Re: RFE: unified message-id lookup across all inboxes

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 01:54:20AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > It will tell you that the message is in another inbox (it was sent to
> > linux-arm-kernel and not cc'd to linux-kernel). The users don't like
> > that extra click, so they really just want a "show me the message if
> > it's anywhere on lore, and give me a link to marc.info, etc if not in
> > any of them).
> 
> Right.  I wanted to make it obvious to the user the message was
> in a different inbox.  So I think the new endpoint would be
> (without /$INBOX/ name):
> 
> 	http://$HTTP_HOST/_/$MESSAGE_ID
> 
> And 302 the user to the first message.

That sounds good to me.

> > It's been way too long since I've done Perl, which is why I'm not
> > offering patches, sorry! :)
> 
> No worries; I've got a bunch of other RFEs to take care of, too.
> 
> Also, I've been wondering if Ruby would have been a better
> language for this project?

I may be jaded from the times when Ruby's VM was really terrible, but
I'm still harbouring deep aversion to Ruby. I'll take Perl over Ruby any
day. :)

> Python doesn't fit my brain, Xapian bindings for Lua aren't yet
> in Debian, yet (RFP filed), but they're packaged for Ruby.  But
> I've been hacking on the Ruby VM for nearly a decade...  I just
> never get to use Ruby for development because I'm constantly
> side-tracked into fixing and attempting to improve the VM and
> language.  But VM hacking isn't really rewarding anymore, so I'm
> taking a break from that.

I don't think this is something that needs fixing. I expect it's easier
to just let people write custom web frontends to public-inbox
repositories (I suspect that's what LWN has done). In fact, I pondered
writing or commissioning a Django frontend if people needed more
shiny whizbang stuff out of the web interface, but kernel devs are the
kind of crowd that's served perfectly well by the current web frontend,
so I don't have a strong enough need to do anything there.

-K