[Gluster-devel] How to search frequently asked questions in gluster mailing lists.

[Niels de Vos]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:38:59PM +0530, Raghavendra Talur wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2015 17:47, "Niels de Vos" <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 09:48:53AM +0000, Jesper Led Lauridsen     TS
> Infra server wrote:
> > > > On 04/17/2015 11:56 AM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
> > > > > Hi All,
> > > > >
> > > > > Since the volume of posts on our mailing lists seems to be steadily
> > > > > increasing, I wonder if we should evolve guidelines for posting in
> > > > the
> > > > > lists along the lines of the Fedora one [1]. It could be useful for
> > > > > new entrants in the community to understand our mailing list
> > > > etiquette.
> > > > >
> > > > > If we think it is a good idea to evolve this artifact and don't find
> > > > > anything in the fedora guidelines objectionable, I would be happy to
> > > > > port it for Gluster :).
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Vijay
> > > > >
> > > > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
> > > >
> > > > +1. Specially I agree with Fedora guideline about "Top posting ". It
> is
> > > > really inconvenient to go through a long mail thread when people do
> > > > "Top posting" [2].
> > > >
> > > > Fedora mailing list guidelines has link to following pdf [1]. It
> > > > actually covers most of the things in a precise way. Just putting it
> > > > here in case you missed it in the original wiki page.
> > > >
> > > > [1]
> > > > http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-
> > > > etiquette.pdf
> > > > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Lala
> > >
> > > > Sendt: 17. april 2015 08:59
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Good suggestion.
> > >
> > > Another suggestion. Off topic - sorry. Some of the question are the
> > > same or similar which also increase the amount of mails. Maybe it just
> > > me, but I failed to find a way to search the archives
> > > "http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/" for answers or
> > > previous posts on the same topic. A way to search the archives could
> > > also decrease the amount.
> 
> I had created a custom Google search for it once  but never went back to
> finish tweaking it.  Here is the link
> https://cse.google.co.in:443/cse/publicurl?cx=011584940093792490158:gn39i94_4la
> 
> Apart from mailing list archives,  it also searches through irc logs and
> our gluster.org wiki.
> 
> If this does seem like a good I idea I will
> Make it better.

I am not sure it really searches through the mailinglists? At least I
can not find anything that links to the archives. Other than that, its
quite cool, maybe helpful to get it integrated in the gluster.org
website?

Thanks,
Niels