Re: Debian's web page www.debian.org/MailingLists
Hi,
Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Whatever you decide, please ensure
> >> https://lists.debian.org/completeindex.html is available somewhere.
> >> When people search for Debian Mailing Lists, that's what we are
> >> interested in. We should not have to wade through search results
> >> looking for the information we precisely called out in a search.
> >
> > The lists.d.o main page has a link to that page:
> >
> > If you wish to browse a complete list of mailing lists, see the
> > complete index.
> >
> > It also has a link to additional Debian mailing lists that are not on lists.d.o:
> >
> > If you wish to browse a list of additional Debian related mailing
> > lists, see the wiki page.
> > https://wiki.debian.org/AdditionalDebianMailingLists
>
> Forgive my ignorance... I opened the source to to the webpage in
> question, and there is no link to "completeindex.html". In fact, there
> is no hit for "completeindex" either.
>
> Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but it does not appear a link
> to the complete list is available anywhere on the Mailing List page.
On lists.debian.org there is a link to the complete index, that's enough
IMO. We cannot make direct links from everywhere to everywhere.
Furthermore: not everyone is most probably happy with the complete index
list, there might be people, especially newcomers, who prefer a listing
sorted by categories or the like, instead of being overrun by a list with
269 entries.
Holger
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