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

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 01:54:20AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > 	http://$HTTP_HOST/_/$MESSAGE_ID
> > 
> > And 302 the user to the first message.
> 
> That sounds good to me.

Alright.  I think we can reserve '_' and some other punctuation
and make them invalid inbox names.

> 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. :)

Heh, it was a large part of my full-time job for me to fix
RubyVM bugs for a few years.  So it ought to be better, now; and
all the TLS termination for https://public-inbox.org/git/ since
2016 has been done by a Ruby server without nginx (or similar).

> 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.

Yeah, I was wondering when somebody would write a heavier one
with more whizbang features.  But I also think
Thunderbird/sylpheed/... + NNTP (or POP3) could still do better.

I will certainly add user-customizable CSS for quote/diff
highlighting (and maybe code syntax highlighting, too).
At least I promised it last year to somebody privately.

But FWIW, I need to use giant fonts and can't deal with most
sites or UIs without "xrandr-invert-colors" (or "xcalib -i -a").

So UI is highly subjective and the only part of UI/UX I can
really understand are speed and stability.  To that end, I think
the WWW code be made even faster (and eliminate Varnish/nginx
even for busy sites on cheap VPS).  And the search queries +
mboxrd format won't change, so people can build on top of that
(but Xapian result sorting/accuracy may change).


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