Re: How to search on emacs-devel?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:49:31 -0500
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eric Abrahamsen writes:
> 
> > Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> >
> >> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> >>
> >>> public-inbox is git under the hood (see
> >>> https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/_/text/mirror/).
> >>
> >> Maybe local indexing with notmuch or what have you is still the easiest
> >> solution, to.
> 
> For those that want to go this route, the main thing is getting the
> Git-stored messages [1] into a format that the indexer understands.
> There are some existing tools (not part of public-inbox) that can
> convert a public-inbox archive into a Maildir.  l2md [2] and impibe [3]
> are the ones listed at
> <https://public-inbox.org/public-inbox.git/plain/Documentation/clients.txt>,
> though I haven't used either of them myself.  (There's also
> public-inbox's lei, which I'll get to below.)

Instead (or maybe in addition to) of working on solutions that will
help people individually and locally, why not talk to the GNU mailman
admins so that this issue could be solved as part of improving the
search facilities of the mailman archives?  That would benefit all of
us.  Not to mention that "heavy" solutions are much more likely to be
deployed as part of the GNU mailman infrastructure than by individual
users on their local machines.

Thanks.