Re: mailing list archiver chewing patches
Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
To: Matteo Beccati <php@beccati.com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-11T11:58:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Matteo Beccati <php@beccati.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Il 11/01/2010 11:18, Dimitri Fontaine ha scritto: >> >> AOX is already a database backed email solution, offering an archive >> page with searching. I believe the searching is baked by tsearch >> indexing. That's why I think it'd be suitable. >> >> They already archive and offer search over one of our mailing lists, and >> from there it seems like we'd only miss the user interface bits: >> >> http://archives.aox.org/archives/pgsql-announce >> >> I hope the UI bits are not the most time demanding one. >> >> Is there someone with enough time to install aox somewhere and have it >> subscribed to our lists? > > I recall having tried AOX a long time ago but I can't remember the reason > why I was not satisfied. I guess I can give another try by setting up a test > ML archive. I tried it too, before I started writing the new prototype archiver from scratch. I too forget why I gave up on it, but it was a strong enough reason for me to start coding from scratch. BTW, we only need to replace the archiver/display code. The search works well already. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com