From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS29169 217.70.176.0/20 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net (relay3-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.195]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DDFF2018E for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 22:32:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cloud (joshtriplett.org [IPv6:2604:3400:dc1:41:216:3eff:fe9f:2070]) (Authenticated sender: josh@joshtriplett.org) by relay3-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1FDFEA80C7; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 00:32:15 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 15:32:15 -0700 From: Josh Triplett To: Eric Wong Cc: Jakub =?utf-8?B?TmFyxJlic2tp?= , Philip Oakley , Christian Couder , git , Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen , Nicola Paolucci , Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , Stefan Beller , Michael Haggerty , Ramsay Jones , remi galan-alfonso , Johannes Sixt , Torsten =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6gershausen?= , Lars Schneider , meta@public-inbox.org Subject: Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 18 Message-ID: <20160816223215.GC17195@cloud> References: <9f3b254f-451e-4f6d-233c-7e995d8e369e@gmail.com> <20160816093027.GA27347@dcvr> <20160816093412.v3tenw4vyxipunah@x> <20160816212704.GA25034@dcvr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20160816212704.GA25034@dcvr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) List-Id: On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:27:04PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:30:27AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > > > Jakub Narębski 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.)