Re: Patch to add libstdc++ lists to lists.html

["Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

>  +<p>For more info, and features of the mailing list software, please
>  +consult <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#faqs">the
>  +documentation page for sources.redhat.com and gcc.gnu.org mailing
>  +lists</a>.
>  +</p>
>
> (This duplicates some information we already have, and it "demasks"
> gcc.gnu.org as sources.redhat.com, something which we cannot do due
> to *VERY* strong concerns by RMS.)

The point was, this text is on the libstdc++/mail.html page and has more
detailed information than the GCC page.  One of the issues with the move
was to be that GCC ought to have its own gcc.gnu.org-branded copy of that
page.

> In this case, please report the problems to overseers@gcc.gnu.org.

The following are issues with the libstdc++ move to gcc.gnu.org:

* Though subscription attempts through the gcc.gnu.org addresses get
through, the confirm messages refer to the wrong hostnames:

	Subject: confirm subscribe to libstdc++@sources.redhat.com

	Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the
	libstdc++@sourceware.cygnus.com mailing list.

(Not being on the libstdc++ lists, I don't know whether messages from the
lists, as well as subscription ones, themselves get references to the
wrong hostname in any header beyond the inevitable references in Received
from reverse DNS.)

* The web page http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/ has some problems: two
links to December archives; links to FTP archives use the old
sources.redhat.com and sourceware.cygnus.com names rather than
gcc.gnu.org.  The hostname problems affect the libstdc++-cvs and
libstdc++-prs archives as well.  (I'm supposing that the libstdc++ ftp
site should be referenced to the gcc.gnu.org hostname; see below.)

* The web page http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2000-12/ refers to the
"libstdc++@sources.redhat.com" mailing list; as do the current
libstdc++-cvs archives.  While there's no need to regenerate old archives,
the current ones, and newly added messages, ought to be getting references
to the gcc.gnu.org name instead.

* The GCC search form in search.html will need updating to include the
libstdc++ lists.  Maybe something needs to be done to get them included in
the right indexes as well, for this to work.

* The ftp mail archives should join the GCC ones in /pub/gcc.  Arguably,
the libstdc++ ftp site should move to under /pub/gcc (with a symlink).
I'm presuming that until this is done, it will be safe to refer to
ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/libstdc++/.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk