Re: Add ath9k-devel archives to lore?

From: "Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>,
	Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: QCA ath9k Development <ath9k-devel@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add ath9k-devel archives to lore?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:27:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210329112712.ls2wn5qu5w53q77l@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200722084315.nlvxigt3t6ifcbbm@pali>

+ Konstantin

On Wednesday 22 July 2020 10:43:15 Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Friday 10 July 2020 15:00:25 Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > The ath9k-devel mailing list was closed in 2017 in favor of
> > linux-wireless (per
> > https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k), but the
> > archives contain information that may still be useful.
> > 
> > For instance, Pali just sent me a link
> > (https://www.mail-archive.com/ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org/msg07529.html)
> > about an issue with PCI enumeration.
> 
> I would like to see ath9k-devel archive available in some searchable and
> indexed form too! pipermail is not really usable.
> 
> > The ath9k-devel archive still seems to exist at
> > https://lists.ath9k.org/pipermail/ath9k-devel/ and
> > https://www.mail-archive.com/ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org/
> > 
> > https://korg.docs.kernel.org/lore.html says pipermail archives *can*
> > be used, but it's better to start with something else.  
> > 
> > Is anybody interested in adding the ath9k-devel archives to lore?

I would really like to see ath9k-devel archive available & searchable in
lore web service.

Konstantin, do you think it is possible?

> > If so, does anybody have an archive to start with?
> 
> In most cases, pipermail/mailman is configured to save unmodified copy
> (with all attachments and headers) of every incoming email to some mbox
> archive stored on server, which is available to server admins. This mbox
> archive is not available for download via web interface, so it is not
> public and some SSH access to server is required for obtaining it.
> 
> Admins of lists.ath9k.org could have access to full ath9k-devel mbox
> archive which is suitable for importing into any indexing service, like
> lore.
> 
> Public pipermail archive has downloadable GZIP version of all emails,
> but it is stripped of all attachments and have mangled all strings in
> headers and body which may look like an email address. So this public
> pipermail archive is not very usable.
> 
> In past I did some research work on topic how to archive, parse and
> index emails from mailing lists and I have scripts which could de-mangle
> pipermail public archives and generate from it valid mbox archive.