On 09/07/2016 05:03 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
On Tuesday, 6 Sep 2016 at 11:07, Charles Millar wrote:
The mail list search has been broken for more than one year (close to
two). I and others have asked that it be repaired and nothing has
happened!
Are you sure it's been broken that long? I don't use it often but I
thought I used it more recently than that. Oh well, doesn't matter;
just curious. The key is that it's broken now but at least there are
alternatives.
I'm not sure whether Charles is referring to Gmane search or the
lists.gnu.org search: I understood it to be the latter. If he indeed
means the latter, I can agree that it seems broken. It might just be
that the index is not being rebuilt regularly, or there might be some
deeper problem, but I have found it to be unusable.
Yes I did mean lists.gnu.org. Since April 2015, at least, I have
occasionally gone to the search engine for that list to see if it has
been repaired and I have had no luck. Either it has never been repaired
or I somehow mange to chose just the "right" time when it is down, again.
Gmane (while it was still alive) broke a few times but it was always
repaired fairly quickly (I nagged Lars a couple of times about it, so
I may have indirectly contributed to him giving up in disgust ;-) ).
Now that Gmane is being resurrected[1], I hope that things will be
more or less back to normal in fairly short order.
[1] see another post of mine in this thread - although bear in mind
that my posts seem to take 12 hours to appear on the list; no
idea why.
Great! Then I can find who first reported that lists.gnu.org search was
not working and when. I know that it wasn't me.
As I recall Nicolas G. suggested that I contact whoever maintained the
list (he gave the address) and report this. I did, but no response.
Charlie Millar
