adrianlikins.com » software http://adrianlikins.com Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:34:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 reading is hard http://adrianlikins.com/2009/02/reading-is-hard/ http://adrianlikins.com/2009/02/reading-is-hard/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:56:34 +0000 adrian http://adrianlikins.com/?p=481 Continue reading →]]> I read a lot of mailing lists. Mostly for various open source software projects. Most of them for work.

It would be cool to have a mailing list summary page. The page would scan the mailing lists, and post the content most likely to need attention. For software projects, this is stuff like:

  • Patches (http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/patchwork/ does this for patches to some degree)
  • urls to bug reports
  • urls to pastebin  or gists sites that are likely to contain errors or patches
  • things that look like error messages (segfaults, stack traces, etc)
  • links to SCM (either direct urls, or urls to web interfaces, github, bitbucket, etc)

Mailing list archive software could probably do this. Mailman has support for “topics” that are defined by regex’s. But the interface is poor.

And of course, an RSS feed for all of the above would be nice.

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