Re: grokmirror and pi-piper for all emails on a list

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 12:46:03PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > Note, that if you
> > configured pi-piper to reshallow the repository, you will need to unshallow it
> > first (see the article you linked above).
> 
> OK so do you mean that if I'm starting from scratch I should use the
> shallow setting or make sure to not use it?

If you're starting from scratch, make sure you don't use it, or set it after
you're done passing everything through pi-piper.

> > Also of note is that the upcoming "lei" tool from public-inbox is going to be
> > a much more robust approach to doing what pi-piper does. I really wrote it
> > mostly so we could feed lore lists into patchwork. :)
> 
> Whoa, ok so, before I go on raving about this, I should wait instead
> and rave about lei later?

You can use lei right now if you like -- I believe it is fairly stable.
I believe the docs are still pretty thin, though, and may require newer sever
deployments than what is currently running on lore.kernel.org.

I'm supposed to be giving a talk on lei, lore and b4 at the plumbers
conference this September, so I'm hoping that everything will be in a better
position to "just work out of the box" closer to that time.

-K