[Discourse migration] Can we preserve the links to the email archive?

[ChristianKuehnel]

People frequently refer to emails via their archive links. Also people link emails to other emails via the archive URLs. So it would be really important to find a way to preserve the links after the migration.

It would be great if archive links between emails would be upgraded to links within Discourse. So that clicking on such a link it gets opened in Discourse, not the mailing list archive.

[ChristianKuehnel]

@sqlbyme since you were talking to Discourse (the company): Can you please raise the question there?

[ChristianKuehnel]

@sqlbyme any news on this topic?

[ChristianKuehnel]

@tlattner please discuss this with the folks from Discourse.

[ChristianKuehnel]

stale effort, removing from out backlog

[ChristianKuehnel]

Hi @tlattner ,
Have you found a solution for this? Or do we need someone to investigate the options further?
In any case we should be transparent about this in the documentation.

[tlattner]

We do not plan to support any redirect. The old archives will exist for reference on the web server for any old links.

[tlattner]

Keep in mind that any post can be edited by an admin at any point. So if someone really wants to fix up a link, we can do it (f they can't).

[ChristianKuehnel]

OK, I'll propose an extension to the documentation. I was mostly concerned with links in commits and code reviews. People sometimes refer to a discussion on the mailing list via link as background to a certain decision/design in the code ,. Best, Christian

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[ChristianKuehnel]

The string lists.llvm.org/pipermail/occurs around times in the sources of llvm-project. I suppose these should be updated to point to Discourse after the migration and before we shut down the mailing list archive...

[ChristianKuehnel]

OK, I'll propose an extension to the documentation.

No need for at update, the documentation already reflects that.