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2023-09-11treewide: favor Xapian (SWIG binding) over Search::Xapian
The Xapian SWIG bindings are favored by Xapian upstream for ease-of-maintenance compared to the XS version. While Debian lags on this front, the SWIG bindings are widely available on all *BSDs.
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
2020-02-23doc: improve wording of "inbox" vs "repository"
Since v2 inboxes contain multiple git repositories, avoid the use of the word "repository" when referring to inboxes as a whole in most places.
2020-02-06treewide: run update-copyrights from gnulib for 2019
I didn't wait until September to do it, this year!
2019-10-17doc: update public-inbox-overview(7) for v2
The overview was v1-specific and probably confusing/misleading to new users since v2 is favored. Hopefully improve wording while we're at it and avoid overloading terms like "parts" (which could be confused with Xapian "shards"). Using the word "directly" after "Mirroring mailing lists" did not make sense to me, either.
2019-09-09run update-copyrights from gnulib for 2019
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.
2016-09-07doc: new docs for user-level commands
Hopefully more folks can download and run public-inbox, nowadays.