What is public-indox?

What is public-indox?

[Martin Guy]

Please forgive the noise and my evident stupidity. I have read all over 
PI but have failed to understand whether it is

- an open-source software project with a demo site

- an archiving site for mailing lists hosted elsewhere

- a site that provides mailing lists to FOSS projects and archives the posts


I need a mailing list for https://codeberg.org/sox_ng/sox_ng that can be 
archived in more than one place, have created several, one of which may 
turn out to be OK, and have not yet found an archiving site that works 
as it should.


How should I proceed to try PI for these needs


Thanks & keep up the good work


     M

Re: What is public-indox?

[Eric Wong]

Martin Guy <martinwguy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please forgive the noise and my evident stupidity. I have read all over PI
> but have failed to understand whether it is
> 
> - an open-source software project with a demo site

Yes.

> - an archiving site for mailing lists hosted elsewhere

Yes, but transitioning away from that due to centralization
concerns and costs; I mainly hosted other lists for dogfooding
purposes.

> - a site that provides mailing lists to FOSS projects and archives the posts

No.

Clearly some clarification in the README is necessary :x
Help appreciated...

> I need a mailing list for https://codeberg.org/sox_ng/sox_ng that can be
> archived in more than one place, have created several, one of which may turn
> out to be OK, and have not yet found an archiving site that works as it
> should.

I suggest hosting it yourself, it's packaged for Debian at least...

Fwiw, I have sox-devel and sox-users mirrors for the old lists at
https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/ and
https://public-inbox.org/sox-users/ , respectively.

You can mirror those, too (there's a "mirror" link w/
instructions and link to example config snippet in the upper right).

For new lists you expect to get big, I suggest running
public-inbox-init with `-V2' to enable the more efficient v2
storage layout (v2 requires SQLite, unlike the old v1)

> How should I proceed to try PI for these needs

Maybe the public-inbox-overview(7) manpage helps, and then see
the mirror instructions and try setting up mirrors of the old
lists.  public-inbox-watch is what I use for maintaining
mirrors, there's also a manpage for that.

> Thanks & keep up the good work

no problem :>