Re: [kernel.org users] b4 v0.3.4 released

["Konstantin Ryabitsev" <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 02:18:26PM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Looks like the auto project detection has issues:

It's not really auto-project detection. We use public-inbox itself to 
look for "any list where this message-id shows up". Currently, it does 
no thread completion matching and there is no way to set preference. I 
hope that we'll be able to implement these features in the future.

For now, I plan to use the following approach:

- when a thread is incomplete, look at other mailing lists where it was 
  sent (in to: and cc:)
- grab https://lore.kernel.org/lists.txt
- try to see if we have archives for any of those other lists
- try to backfill missing messages from other lists

This is not great, but it should hopefully help with this problem until 
public-inbox gains ability to return a thread collected from multiple 
lists (it should be able to do that once cross-list search becomes 
available).

> (Also: lore still calls linux-kernel "lkml" which is a bit confusing.)

I know, and I'll have some mechanism in place so both work soon.

-K