Gmane vs. Mail Archive notmuch-report config (was: [PATCH] move more http -> https)

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Thu Feb 15 12:02:58 PST 2018


On Thu 2018-02-15 10:56:29 -0800, W. Trevor King wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 11:01:40AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> -      "message-url": "http://mid.gmane.org/{message-id}"
>> +      "message-url": "https://mid.gmane.org/{message-id}"
>
> I was wondering whether it made sense to change these to something
> else with Gmane down.  But it appears that Gmane is back up, possibly
> since ~2016-09-14 [1]).  The current notmuch-report output [2] is
> linking to the Mail Archive though (e.g. [3]) and not to Gmane
> (e.g. [4]).  Perhaps we want to revert 2d6500a0 (change mid link to
> mail-archive.com, 2017-03-19) and go back to Gmane?  Or use one of the
> other notmuch-based archives that has been floating around on the list
> recently?

while i'm game to reconsider this (and clearly my work on
https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/btsmail is intended for a future
replacement), i don't want to block the proposed patch from landing.
what did you think of the rest of the patch? :)

     --dkg


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