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Bug 215709

Summary: Mailing list web archives could use some TLC
Product: Community Reporter: Nick Boldt <nboldt>
Component: MailingListsAssignee: Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P4 CC: dj.houghton, d_a_carver, karl.matthias, phoenix.ui-inbox
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Nick Boldt CLA 2008-01-17 15:58:28 EST 
See comments here[1]. If I'm the only person with usability issues, then consider this a WORKSFORME.

[1] http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/releng/2008/01/17/mailing-list-digestion
Comment 1 Denis Roy CLA 2008-01-17 16:02:13 EST 
No, you're not alone.  Our mail archives are teh suckiest.  I'll cc the Phoenix team here because it's also a web thing.
Comment 2 David Carver CLA 2008-01-18 08:42:40 EST 
Don't forget about GMane and The Mail Archive.

Instead of having eclipse web site maintain the archives, why not just shoot people off to one of the other free external services that is archiving mailling lists.   One of the cooler ones being MarkMail, an system that archives the emails as XML Messages and uses Mark Logics XML DB for searching and indexing.

http://markmail.org/

So basically, let these other services that are concentrating on this type of functionality do the work instead of eclipse web engineers wasting time doing it themselves.
Comment 3 Karl Matthias CLA 2008-07-15 18:23:00 EDT 
Lowering priority since we're not going to get to this for some time.
Comment 4 DJ Houghton CLA 2009-09-29 11:29:21 EDT 
Is it possible to add the "sender" to the main mailing list archive page for each list? It used to be there in the old format but was removed with the recent changes.

Currently when you go to an archive page and there is a thread, you see all the message subjects together (all the same name) but you can't see who sent each one without first clicking on it.

I commonly go to the ML Archives pages to grab links to exact messages to paste into bug reports and without the Sender name on the main page, it makes this task quite tedious.

Thanks.
Comment 5 Denis Roy CLA 2009-10-01 13:14:22 EDT 
> Is it possible to add the "sender" to the main mailing list archive page for

Great idea.  I've spun this off in a separate bug, since the index pages are handled differently from the actual archives.  I've cc'd you to bug 291068.
Comment 6 Denis Roy CLA 2011-08-12 16:35:14 EDT 
Some time ago Matt wrapped our ML archives around Nova and added better navigation and a Google custom search for each list.

Not perfect, but much improved.  Markmail is still hard to beat though.

Closing fixed; please reopen if you have ideas we can reasonably implement.