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"mainrepo" ws a bad name and artifact from the early days when I
intended for there to be a "spamrepo" (now just the
ENV{PI_EMERGENCY} Maildir). With v2, "mainrepo" can be
especially confusing, since v2 needs at least two git
repositories (epoch + all.git) to function and we shouldn't
confuse users by having them point to a git repository for v2.
Much of our documentation already references "INBOX_DIR" for
command-line arguments, so use "inboxdir" as the
git-config(1)-friendly variant for that.
"mainrepo" remains supported indefinitely for compatibility.
Users may need to revert to old versions, or may be referring
to old documentation and must not be forced to change config
files to account for this change.
So if you're using "mainrepo" today, I do NOT recommend changing
it right away because other bugs can lurk.
Link: https://public-inbox.org/meta/874l0ice8v.fsf@alyssa.is/
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'$inbox' is more human-readable, so that is for the more
human-readable name in most cases. Making our variable naming
more consistent should make the code easier-to-review and
harder to screw up.
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Hopefully this helps people familiarize themselves with
the source code.
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Oops :x
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There's enough gmane links out there in wild that it makes sense
to maintain support for these mappings.
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Using update-copyrights from gnulib
While we're at it, use the SPDX identifier for AGPL-3.0+ to
ease mechanical processing.
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Unfortunately, it appears we have to reject this and instead add
support filtering at View time(*), due to DKIM signatures in
messages from ruby-lang.org.
(*) which may not be worth it
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For some existing mailing list archives, messages are identified
by serial number (such as NNTP article numbers in gmane). Those
links may become inaccessible (as is the current case for
gmane), so ensure users can still search based on old serial
numbers.
Now, I run the following periodically to get article numbers
from gmane (while news.gmane.org remains):
NNTPSERVER=news.gmane.org
export NNTPSERVER
GROUP=gmane.comp.version-control.git
perl -I lib scripts/xhdr-num2mid $GROUP --msgmap=/path/to/gmane.sqlite3
(I might integrate this further with public-inbox-* scripts one day).
My ~/.public-inbox/config as an added "altid" snippet which now
looks like this:
[publicinbox "git"]
address = git@vger.kernel.org
mainrepo = /path/to/git.vger.git
newsgroup = inbox.comp.version-control.git
; relative pathnames expand to $mainrepo/public-inbox/$file
altid = serial:gmane:file=gmane.sqlite3
And run "public-inbox-index --reindex /path/to/git.vger.git"
periodically.
This ought to allow searching for "gmane:12345" to work for
Xapian-enabled instances.
Disclaimer: while public-inbox supports NNTP and stable article
serial numbers, use of those for public links is discouraged
since it encourages centralization.
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