[csw-maintainers] One more topic for "Communication"

[Sebastian Kayser]

Mike Watters wrote:
> Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> Am 06.02.2009 um 12:03 schrieb William Bonnet:
>>> Hi Peter
>>>> And to complete the muppetish (viz. Statler and Waldorf) profile:
>>>> -1 for php based forums.
>>>>
>>> Including Java based forums ? ;)
>>>
>>> Is there some specific reasons for this ?
>> It is not important what we (=the maintainers) want, but what the
>> users want - it is the users forum. The users@ mailing list has
>> failed, so let's try all of the other stuff and see what gets
>> accepted and discard the rest. If the users want NNTP, fine,
>> if they want RSS, fine, if they want a crappy PHP forum, yes,
>> that is fine also. The one important thing is that it is actually
>> *used*.
> 
> I agree, this is for the users and not the maintainers.
> however, as a maintainer, the issue I have with Mailman as a whole is it
> is NOT searchable.  if we could figure out how to "archive" Mailman
> messages and make them searchable I would be happy.

>From what i remember Ihsan announced a while ago that our mailing lists
are archived and searchable via Gmane.

http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opencsw.user
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opencsw.maintainers
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opencsw.devel

The "messages per day" graph seems to be broken, but messages turn up
fine. Does this help?

Sebastian