mirroring u-boot mailing list on lore.kernel.org

Pratyush Yadav p.yadav at ti.com
Thu May 20 15:53:47 CEST 2021


On 20/05/21 09:16PM, Bin Meng wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 9:05 PM Rasmus Villemoes
> <rasmus.villemoes at prevas.dk> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > When doing linux kernel work, the public-inbox archives at
> > lore.kernel.org are really useful.
> >
> > - excellent search features
> > - stable links of the form lore.kernel.org/<list>/<msg-id>
> > - nice overview of threads
> > - ability to, with the b4 tool, download patches or whole series by
> > msg-id, and logic to compare those to previous versions
> >
> > With U-Boot, I often miss these features.
> >
> > I don't know if the kernel.org folks would be willing to host an archive
> > of the u-boot mailing list, but it's not entirely unlikely - they do
> > host a number of lists from the wider ecosystem (e.g. coccinelle, git)
> > [1]. But do anybody see or have a problem with me sending a request to
> > helpdesk at kernel.org to have it added [2]?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rasmus
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lists.html
> > [2] https://korg.docs.kernel.org/lore.html
> 
> Sounds good to me.

+1

I think it is worth mentioning that lore.kernel.org is based on 
public-inbox [0]. If the kernel folks are not willing to host an archive 
for this list, we can look into hosting a public-inbox instance on 
denx.de as well.

[0] https://public-inbox.org/

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
Texas Instruments Inc.


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