Mailing List Digestion
Props to Karl for finding & mentioning this. Apologies in advance if this post smacks of “no good deed goes unpunished”, in that the mention of it has yielded this bug.
In addition to the regular mailing list archives at Eclipse.org, there’s now a new way to get your archives, whenever you need to know when something was said, and by who.
Please note that the Nabble archives, while slow to load (and don’t include all lists — in particular, modeling.* are missing!), are more easily navigable than the Eclipse ones. Compare:
- Choose an archive or browse the entire message stack (cross-list) in one view.
- Navigate from Eclipse > Tools > GEF > individual message thread. Forgive the frames — they let you see the thread tree and messages at the same time.
vs.
- Choose an archive (no option to browse cross-list).
- If you notice the [+] icons on the above page, you can use them to expand the section and jump directly to an archive; if you don’t (as I tend to), then you click the purple listname links and end up here. Note the Phoenix skin change.
- Now, there’s a link in the first paragraph that goes to gef-dev Archives. Note the pre-Phoenix style. No idea why the list is called “gef-devQ” instead of “gef-dev.” Odd.
- Want threading? One more click gets you there.
- Finally, we get to the first message of the thread.
Am I the only one that finds this a bit cumbersome? And that having not one, but two different skins for the archives is… odd?
If so, please place some comments in bug 215709.
Posted January 17th, 2008 by in category: errata, mailinglist, misc, usability, web, workflow
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Karl Matthias Says:
January 17th, 2008 at 06:20 pm
Just goes to show what happens when I open my big mouth. Thanks a lot Nick
Nick Boldt Says:
January 17th, 2008 at 08:19 pm
Knowing that we’re all overloaded (’cept maybe the eclipse.org servers, with your shiny new bandwidth!) I opened the bug as an enhancement / question. Obviously it’s far from urgent, since the current setup *is* functional, if painful at times.
(Generally, I just search thru my gmail archives. Why browse when you can search?)