Re: Patches in mailing list archives

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Julian Foad wrote:

> Trying to get a patch from an email message in one of the archives is
> painful. I'm talking about in-line patches in either the tigris.org or the
> contactor.se archives.
>
> contactor.se: (e.g.
> http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2003-03/1841.shtml)

[snip]

> What is the software behind either of these archive viewers? Can we have
> any influence over it? It would be good to add a "download raw email
> message" option, and/or fix the bugs in their email-to-HTML converters.
>
> To apply a patch from one old email message today, I used a mixture of
> manual HTML-to-email conversion and manual re-typing of the changes. What
> do the rest of you do?

This particular archive is built with Hypermail (http://www.hypermail.org/),
it is a free and open project. Feel free to provide your bright ideas.

I do not allow access to the raw email (or mbox) for a reason: spam bots.
There's nothing technically challanging for me to add links to the mboxes for
each month, should we reach a consensus that is prefered.

Personally, I think using attachments for patches is the better way. Both for
people and for mail archivers. (Yes, I know the policy here express a
different opinion.)

If attachments were used, they would also be easier to find and manage in this
intense mail traffic thanks to hypermail's "attachment index" (like this
http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2003-08/attachment.shtml).

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