Re: Mumi, public-inbox and tools

[zimoun]

Hi Arun,

On Tue, 03 May 2022 at 23:20, Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> wrote:

>> of public-inbox via yhetil.org/guix and the piem glue?
>
> I haven't thought carefully about public-inbox integration. But, if we
> can do everything in mumi, do we need public-inbox at all?

Well, some advantages I see after using a bit the public-inbox instance
<https://yhetil.org/> mirroring some lists.

1. The web interface,

  a) works well with “poor“ web browser as EWW
     (whereas I prefer Mumi with full featured browser ;-))
  b) show the complete thread
  c) powerful and quick search

2. The local mirror,

  a) ‘git pull’, so do not pollute my email inbox   
  b) I pull and so read whenever I want, not when messages are
    delivered
  c) I index and read using whatever fits my workflow
  d) the public-inbox server provides NNTP for Gnus folks

3. Bridge the present with the past

  assume I start to follow guix-devel on Wed, 30 Mar 2022

  and I locally read with my favorite Email reader this message:
  <https://yhetil.org/guix/877d8bwz1l.fsf@gnu.org>

  I am interested and I would like to know more:
  a) I can read using my web browser
  b) I can download the complete thread and read offline
     (it requires some glue code, as ’lei’ or ’piem’; IIUC)

Using the “official” interface, it is really boring.  For instance, I
read this message
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2022-03/msg00039.html>,
then one needs some motivation to find the message of this reply; since
it had not been sent the same month.


Mumi is about bugs and another interface for Debbugs.  Therefore, we
cannot do everything with Mumi. ;-)

Maybe, what could help, IMHO, would to have the various Guix mailing
lists as public-inboxes under, say https://lists.guix.gnu.org and Mumi
could use this instance, eventually, or bridge.  The aim would be a
flexible interface but still uniform.

And I do not speak about other tools from the ecosystem as B4,

    <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/tree/README.rst>


Cheers,
simon