mail.openjdk.java.net: no search tool on the mailing archive.

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Dave,

your solution works of course. But the problem is that the mails in
the archives are archived month-wise. If you  have a discussion thread
which spans multiple month, you can't see the whole thread in the
thread view - you can only see the part which belongs to one month.
Linking to such a discussion thread is impractical (in general you can
only link to all threads in a month, not to a single thread).

Services like nabble or gmane have much nicer UI for reading mail
threads - and it's easier to link to such a thread.

Compare for example the gmane link for the discussion thread
"Announcement: Visualization tool for client compiler":

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.openjdk.hotspot.compiler.devel/31

with the two links you need to cover the same discussion thread in the archives:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/2007-September/thread.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/2007-October/thread.html

As I mentioned, you can not link to a single thread in the archives,
just to a monthly thread view.

Just my opinion,
Volker

On 4/1/08, David Herron <David.Herron at sun.com> wrote:
> Go to your favorite search engine site
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>  site:mail.openjdk.java.net search string
>
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> ??
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>  - David
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>  Francis ANDRE wrote:
>  > Hi
>  >
>  > I would like to look for additional informations on building OpenJDK
>  > in all archive mails but AFAIK, there is no search tool on the archive
>  > page.
>  >
>  > Do you plan to add such tool on the mailing archives?
>  >
>  >
>  > Francis
>