Well, that was more painful than I expected. Definitely need something
more fortifying than tea and biscuits now!
The web front end should now have been updated with the mailman archives
we have here, sewn together with individual's mail archives for areas
where the central ones were lacking. Anyone who's registered on the site
today will need to re-register I'm afraid, and there may have been a
post or two dropped in the changeover as I had to unlink to set up a
bridge to an mbox importer and then feed posts into that. Not very pleasant.
Have a nice weekend all.
Cheers
Jack
On 06/05/2011 17:38, J Bills wrote:
awesome to hear, thanks for the extra effort jack!
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Jack Binks<[email protected]> wrote:
If you have a few emails from the lists prior to that you find yourself
often referring to, please feel free to forward these round the list again
so they're archived for posterity.
That's a nice idea, but I think having all the archives already dumped in
there would be a lot more useful. Is there any technical (or legal?) reason
that prevents you from doing that?
They're unfortunately not consistently 100% of posts, but since you've asked
so nicely I think I've found a (nasty) way of porting what archive data
there, is with some testing on an offline site. I'm going to attempt to
finagle this on the production site now, or rather once I've had a
fortifying cup of tea and a hobnob. Note that the forum bridge is going to
be down until I complete this, so anything posted there won't make it over.
New posts to the list via email will stack up however and should make it
(barring the potential for one or two).
I will email against once this is complete, be it a success or failure.
Cheers
Jack
Thanks,
Ivan
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Ned Wilson<[email protected]> wrote:
Nice one, Jack... much appreciated. :)
On May 5, 2011, at 4:57 AM, Jack Binks wrote:
Hi All,
Due to popular demand we've made a few improvements to the mailing lists
in the form of a search-able archive and web front end.
These can be found at http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ and act as a
bidirectional link up with the existing mailing lists. Anything posted to
the list will appear in the website thread listings, and anything posted to
the web will bounce out to the mailing lists (with a few minutes latency).
Note that the archives are both viewable and searchable without logging in
to the site, however if you wish to post via the web you'll need to log in.
This has a separate membership to the mailing lists, so use the register
link on the linked page to sign up.
As with the mailing lists, these are not avenues for official support -
such reports should continue to go through [email protected] (along
with any problems you notice with the forums!). The archives run back a
couple of months, ie since the bridge element has been running, and will
build with time. If you have a few emails from the lists prior to that you
find yourself often referring to, please feel free to forward these round
the list again so they're archived for posterity. The email and web front
ends are both covered by the pre-existing code of conduct, and please note
the additional T&Cs and privacy policies linked in the page footer. We'll be
setting up links from the main site shortly.
An important facet of making these genuinely usable for everyone is
observing good thread etiquette, and that's down to all of us who use the
lists. The threads on the web front end mimic the threads seen in your email
client, so even if you don't personally use threads in your emails, please
do follow standard rules when responding to ensure the archives are easy to
search and follow, and indeed, for everyone else who does use a threaded
email client view.
For those of you who don't generally use threads, there are lots of
resources on the web related to good etiquette, however the most important
from this point of view are:
-When creating a new topic hit 'new email' in your client and set to:
<mailing list address> (eg [email protected]). Don't find
a different email topic on the list, open a contained email, hit reply and
change the subject as there's a secret squirrel identifier which is used to
id the thread and which hasn't been changed. If you do this then your new
topic will appear in the previous topic's thread.
-When replying to an existing topic, open the email in the thread in
particular you are replying to and hit 'reply' in your email client,
ensuring the to: is set to the mailing list address. Do not hit 'new' and
copy and paste the subject over, as for similar reasons to the last post the
email will appear as a new topic, rather than part of the previous topic's
thread. An obvious difficulty that arises here is for those of you that use
the mailing list's digest view. If possible, when you get a digest mail you
wish to respond to, do so via the web front end against that particular
thread, so as to preserve that thread's integrity.
Hope you find the improvements useful, and do let us know at support@ if
you run into any issues.
Kind Regards
Jack
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