On 02-Feb-99 John Goerzen wrote: > OK, I've written on both of these topics before, and nothing has happened > for months, so I'm writing here. > > First, Debian's list archives will most likely die a horrible death on > January 1, 2000. That's right, folks; lists-archives is not year-2000 > compliant. Not only will dates in indexes appear wrong, but after some > testing yesterday, I believe the whole thing will blow up. I have fixed my > private lists-archives to have such compliance (I've also fixed a lot of > other bugs in it), but nobody has been interested in the patches, so... > > Secondly, whenever you search for something in the mailinglist archives on > www.debian.org, you get back a page of results. Click on any result, and > you get a 404 error. This has been broken for literally months; I reported > it a long time back, have prodded people since then, and nothing has been > done. This and other issues dealing with the mailing list archives are being addressed. There's been recent messages on -www about there (where most of the web related stuff is discussed). We're looking at a few systems that would 1) reduce the number and/or size of files to make mirroring easier 2) make indices of -devel and -user (and others) easier to handle 3) not have a problem with mime encoded pgp signed messages from wichert ;) It will not (hopefully) take into the year 2000. In the meantime... -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <>< * * -------------------- * -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- ---------------* * Darren Benham * Version: 3.1 * * <gecko@benham.net> * GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++>++++ P+++$ L++>++++* * KC7YAQ * E? W+++$ N+(-) o? K- w+++$(--) O M-- V- PS-- * * Debian Developer * PE++ Y++ PGP++ t+ 5 X R+ !tv b++++ DI+++ D++ * * <gecko@debian.org> * G++>G+++ e h+ r* y+ * * -------------------- * ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ---------------* =========================================================================
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