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2023-08-28Fix some typos/grammar/errors in docs and comments
2021-11-04doc: design_notes: updates for "newer" things
public-inbox-imapd, public-inbox-watch, and marketing.txt all exist, now.
2021-05-04treewide: update to v3 Tor onions
v2 onions are insecure, deprecated and going away. v3 names are unfortunately longer and more difficult to remember, but should be more resistant to attack than v2 ones.
2021-01-01update copyrights for 2021
Using "make update-copyrights" after setting GNULIB_PATH in my config.mak
2020-02-06treewide: run update-copyrights from gnulib for 2019
I didn't wait until September to do it, this year!
2019-01-02update and add documentation for repository formats
Remove confusing documentation around ssoma now that we have NNTP and downloadable mbox support. Only lightly-checked for grammar and speling, and not yet formatting. Edits, corrections and addendums expected :>
2018-02-07update copyrights for 2018
Using update-copyrights from gnulib While we're at it, use the SPDX identifier for AGPL-3.0+ to ease mechanical processing.
2016-12-26doc: minor updates to design notes
ssoma is not worth marketing, but perhaps our mirror of the git mailing list archives is...
2016-03-05doc: language-neutral client-side endpoints
Be less specific, client-side code can be written in any language (and I do not care for JS runtimes implemented in C++ :P).
2016-03-05doc: varyus speling fickses
Letz trie 2 uphear liter8
2016-02-01doc: misc cleanups and whitespace additions
Add a few newlines for readability (perhaps at the expense of economy). Stop mentioning "Open Source" as it is redundant and "Free Software" fits our goals, better.
2015-09-06update copyright headers and email addresses
In the future, it should be possible to use this: git ls-files | UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_HOLDER='all contributors' \ UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_USE_INTERVALS=2 \ xargs /path/to/gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
2015-08-20misc documentation updates
Threading in Xapian is mostly supported by now; so start documenting things.
2014-04-19various documentation updates
We have an HTML homepage, OMG!
2014-04-15doc: add notes on scalability
Fortunately, most mailing lists will never grow too large.
2014-04-11Documentation/design_notes: more updates
Laziness \o/ (Then impatience and hubris :)
2014-04-09doc: split out philosophy to a different page
Hopefully a little easier to find for clients and not admins running servers. While we're at it, expand design_notes.
2014-04-08design_notes: various updates, including "why git?"
Things to keep in mind when working on this.
2014-04-08doc: various cleanups all around
Most notably, the INSTALL is geared towards potential server admins, whereas the README is also for interested "drive-by" readers.
2014-03-31design_notes: with philosophy
2014-01-09initial commit