Hi all! I think we can all agree that the current web archive over at lists.suckless.org isn't all that great; Author names get mangled, the navigation is terrible, some messages are duplicated, some missing.
That's why I've started looking into #3 of the 'Project Ideas' page (https://suckless.org/project_ideas/) -- "Write a decent mailing list Web archive system". I see lots of potential to build something better than hypermail: - We could take text encodings more seriously. hypermail just copies the 'charset' notice over into the HTML file, which doesn't work when listing multiple messages. - We could use maildir instead of the really brittle mbox format for mailboxes. This might also help avoid message dropping/duplication, but I'm not sure about that. - We could try a different navigation scheme. Perhaps flat threads instead of a hierarchy? I don't really know how people here feel about this, but it's mentioned on the 'Project Ideas' page and I'm in favour of it. Navigating message trees is really confusing. - Bonus: We can ignore CGI, uuencode, HTML mail and all that cruft. Is there currently any interest in such a project here? So far, I've gone ahead and implemented a sort of proof-of-concept (at https://www.github.com/tomolt/mailarchiver). Of course I can't guarantee that this will go anywhere, as I only have limited time and patience myself, but I can give it a try. Cheers, Thomas Oltmann
