Re: Google Groups

On 28/02/2008, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Suraj Barkale wrote:
> > Stefan <tortoisesvn <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >> The dev mailing list is now also archived as a Google group:
> >> http://groups.google.com/group/tortoisesvn-dev
> >>
> >> For those of you who rather like to access this list as a forum, you
> >> can now use that Google group to read and post.
> >>
> >> Stefan
> >>
> > And if you don't like Google Groups interface there is always:
> > 1. Gmane
> > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.tortoisesvn.devel
>
> But Gmane does not store the mails long enough. Due to a setting of the
> mailing list, GMane expires the mails after a few weeks (at least it did
> last time I checked). So it's not really suited for searching old posts.

Gmane is useful as a news server but we should probably stop giving
that URL as an archive.

http://svn.haxx.se/tsvn/ is also very good as an archive and there is
no expiry. You can also search both SVN and TSVN on the same site.

> > 2. Nabble
> > http://www.nabble.com/tortoisesvn---dev-f10678.html
>
>
> Never tried that one.
>
> The reason I chose the google groups is that they're closest to forums.
> And many people complained that we don't have a forum for asking
> questions, only a mailing list.

Simon

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