New Arrival, and no link to some ruby-doc archives?

Hello apparently pleasantly low-traffic list members. I'm
here as a 
preliminary step to hopefully improving the documentation
for RDoc, and 
improving RDoc itself, especially in regards to generating
improved 
HTML-based on-drive doc trees.

Since I'd been subscribed for a few days and hadn't seen
any messages 
go by, I figured I probably ought to read back through the
archives a 
little ways before posting.

I was unable to find any mention of the
"ruby-doc" mailing list on 
www.ruby-doc.org

Is this deliberate?

I eventually located archives at www.nabble.com.

While writing this message for posting, it occured to me to
check at 
ruby-lang.org. "Oops!" I thought to myself. But,
oddly, although that 
site does have links for ruby-core and ruby-talk archives,
there isn't 
a ruby-doc archive link. 

Dave Howell wrote:
> Hello apparently pleasantly low-traffic list members.
I'm here as a 
> preliminary step to hopefully improving the
documentation for RDoc, and 
> improving RDoc itself, especially in regards to
generating improved 
> HTML-based on-drive doc trees.
> 
> Since I'd been subscribed for a few days and hadn't
seen any messages go 
> by, I figured I probably ought to read back through the
archives a 
> little ways before posting.
> 
> I was unable to find any mention of the
"ruby-doc" mailing list on 
> www.ruby-doc.org

Once upon a time there was an archive, but (as I recall, so
please 
correct me, anyone who knows better) it deteriorated, and
the maintainer 
  became unreachable.

I did not think all that much about it; the list traffic had
become 
fairly mundane, and (for me at least) an archive , while
nice, seemed 
extraneous.

However, gmane.org has a habit of Webifiying mailing lists.

http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.documentation

And they have a searchable archive.


Hope that helps.


James Britt

Dave Howell wrote:
> Hello apparently pleasantly low-traffic list members.
I'm here as a 
> preliminary step to hopefully improving the
documentation for RDoc, and 
> improving RDoc itself, especially in regards to
generating improved 
> HTML-based on-drive doc trees.
> 
> Since I'd been subscribed for a few days and hadn't
seen any messages go 
> by, I figured I probably ought to read back through the
archives a 
> little ways before posting.
> 
> I was unable to find any mention of the
"ruby-doc" mailing list on 
> www.ruby-doc.org

Once upon a time there was an archive, but (as I recall, so
please 
correct me, anyone who knows better) it deteriorated, and
the maintainer 
  became unreachable.

I did not think all that much about it; the list traffic had
become 
fairly mundane, and (for me at least) an archive , while
nice, seemed 
extraneous.

However, gmane.org has a habit of Webifiying mailing lists.

http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.documentation

And they have a searchable archive.


Hope that helps.


James Britt

On Jul 24, 2006, at 2:03 PM, Dave Howell wrote:

> I eventually located archives at www.nabble.com.
>
> While writing this message for posting, it occured to
me to check  
> at ruby-lang.org. "Oops!" I thought to
myself. But, oddly, although  
> that site does have links for ruby-core and ruby-talk
archives,  
> there isn't a ruby-doc archive link.

The list is served through the same server as ruby-talk and
ruby- 
core, so they may be able to enable an archive...

-- 
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On Jul 24, 2006, at 2:03 PM, Dave Howell wrote:

> I eventually located archives at www.nabble.com.
>
> While writing this message for posting, it occured to
me to check  
> at ruby-lang.org. "Oops!" I thought to
myself. But, oddly, although  
> that site does have links for ruby-core and ruby-talk
archives,  
> there isn't a ruby-doc archive link.

The list is served through the same server as ruby-talk and
ruby- 
core, so they may be able to enable an archive...

-- 
Eric Hodel - drbrainsegment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net
This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant

http://trackmap.robotco
op.com

On Jul 24, 2006, at 15:35, James Britt wrote:

> I did not think all that much about it; the list
traffic had become 
> fairly mundane, and (for me at least) an archive ,
while nice, seemed 
> extraneous.

Well, I tend to think of the archive as more useful to
people who 
*aren't* subscribed, or weren't. 

But my query wasn't so much "why isn't there an
archive," but "Is the 
lack of a link to an archive from the web site
intentional?"

On Jul 24, 2006, at 15:35, James Britt wrote:

> I did not think all that much about it; the list
traffic had become 
> fairly mundane, and (for me at least) an archive ,
while nice, seemed 
> extraneous.

Well, I tend to think of the archive as more useful to
people who 
*aren't* subscribed, or weren't. 

But my query wasn't so much "why isn't there an
archive," but "Is the 
lack of a link to an archive from the web site
intentional?"

Dave Howell wrote:
> 
> On Jul 24, 2006, at 15:35, James Britt wrote:
> 
>> I did not think all that much about it; the list
traffic had become 
>> fairly mundane, and (for me at least) an archive ,
while nice, seemed 
>> extraneous.
> 
> 
> Well, I tend to think of the archive as more useful to
people who 
> *aren't* subscribed, or weren't. 

True.  I guess after a while it just seems mundane.  Still,
it's nice to 
be able to go back and look stuff up.

> 
> But my query wasn't so much "why isn't there an
archive," but "Is the 
> lack of a link to an archive from the web site
intentional?"

Sort of.   When the site got revamped, I dropped the
reference to the 
archive because it was non-existent.    Had I thought a bit
more, I 
would have added a link to a working alternative.

I've now added a link to Gmane.


James

Dave Howell wrote:
> 
> On Jul 24, 2006, at 15:35, James Britt wrote:
> 
>> I did not think all that much about it; the list
traffic had become 
>> fairly mundane, and (for me at least) an archive ,
while nice, seemed 
>> extraneous.
> 
> 
> Well, I tend to think of the archive as more useful to
people who 
> *aren't* subscribed, or weren't. 

True.  I guess after a while it just seems mundane.  Still,
it's nice to 
be able to go back and look stuff up.

> 
> But my query wasn't so much "why isn't there an
archive," but "Is the 
> lack of a link to an archive from the web site
intentional?"

Sort of.   When the site got revamped, I dropped the
reference to the 
archive because it was non-existent.    Had I thought a bit
more, I 
would have added a link to a working alternative.

I've now added a link to Gmane.


James