Re: attention: the kernelnewbies team

[Mark Zealey <mark@zealos.org>]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:58:44AM -0800, Carl Spalletta wrote:

> >From the most recent Kernel Traffic:
> 
> Ingo Molnar [*] said:
> most of the useful traffic on lkml cannot be expressed
> well on IRC...Also, the lack of reliable archiving of
> IRC traffic prevents newcomers of reproducing the
> thought process afterwards.
> 
> By a strange coincidence I was brooding over sending
> you a proposal to create a page linked from the IRC
> archive page on kernelnewbies, with a form and glimpse
> engine similar to what is found in the lxr.linux.no
> text search form.
> 
> If you would let me download the #kernelnewbies
> archives (I would guess around 380M, right?) I can
> play around with the above and present you with a
> finished form to use or not as you like.
> 
> it pleases?

Yeah, it would be a big task though, I think you'd have to go through it all by
hand and remove the idle chat.. Us ops there try to keep it down, but I'd think
it still has a 1:1 signal:noise ratio or something. Not sure how you'd get it
like lxr, but it would be a very nice resource.

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