Changes dueto server migration

Fangrui Song i@maskray.me
Wed Mar 25 05:50:14 GMT 2020


On 2020-03-24, H.J. Lu via Binutils wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:02 AM Gunther Nikl <gnikl@justmail.de> wrote:
>>
>> Dear GCC developers!
>>
>> I just noticed that the server migration for GCC and sourceware.org
>> brought a surprising change: The list archives are now provided with
>> mailman. Maybe its only me, but IMO with this change the list archives
>
>Same here.  I like the old ones.  I prefer
>
>https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-binutils/
>
>over
>
>https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/

Same here.

It is really difficult for a non-subscriber to comment now.
There are no To: or Cc: fields on Pipermail.

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils
The whole month's worth of emails are available in the "Gzip'd Text" file,
but downloading/copying to a maildir/mbox/neomutt => is a lot of plain.

The new archive succeeded to persuade me to subscribe
binutils@sourceware.org

BTW, Mailman 3 uses HyperKitty instead of Pipermail.

>> loose much usability. Eg. the old date sorting had the date as a
>> heading. This allowed to easily find a certain day. With mailman there
>> is no link to the raw text. I have used this several times to
>> participate in a discussion. For me as user the mailman interface feels
>> limited.
>>
>> The changes to the SSL configuration last year were also a rather nasty
>> surprise for me. I wonder why it was necessary to disable TLSv1
>> completely. I can understand that weak ciphers get disabled. There are
>> probably some ciphers for TLSv1 that could still be allowed thus
>> letting older browsers access gcc.gnu.org/soureware.org.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gunther Nikl



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