[p4] [ANN] Perforce lists now archived in MarkMail

[Jason Hunter]

I've been a fan and user of Perforce for more than a decade (from when 
we selected to use it at SGI back in 1997), and so I'm happy to announce 
a new searchable archive for the Perforce public mailing lists:

http://perforce.markmail.org/

MarkMail is something I've been working on for about a year, a web site 
for interacting with email archives.  As you can see with the chart on 
the home page, one of our goals with the site has been to focus heavily 
on analytics.  We have lots of graphs and counts.  Every query you write 
gets its own histogram traffic chart.  For example, here's a graph of 
posts from people sending from perforce.com accounts:

http://perforce.markmail.org/search/?q=from%3Aperforce.com

Another goal has been interactivity.  Every search result screen gives 
you lots of ways to refine your search (by sender, list, attachment 
type, etc). Plus we did a lot with keyboard shortcuts.  You can hit "n" 
and "p" to move to the next and previous result and "j" and "k" to move 
up and down the thread view.  There's a lot of little things like this. 
Plus if your result message includes Office or PDF files they're in-line 
interactive too.

http://perforce.markmail.org/search/ext:pdf

The subdomain you use implicitly limits the messages you search. Thus 
http://perforce.markmail.org searches only lists with "perforce" in 
their name.

You can search all Apache lists at http://apache.markmail.org, all Ruby 
lists at http://ruby.markmail.org, or across all lists at 
http://markmail.org. You can always limit your search view using a 
"list:<somename>" constraint in your query, but using the domain handles 
that a bit more elegantly.

I hope you all find this useful!  From what I could tell the archives 
weren't searchable previously.

Notes on using the site:

* Search using keywords as well as from:, subject:, extension:, and 
list: constraints

* The GUI doesn't yet expose it, but you can negate any search item, 
like -subject:soap

* Remember to use "n" and "p" keyboard shortcuts to navigate the search 
results

* You're going to want JavaScript enabled

There's more info is in the FAQ (http://markmail.org/docs/faq.xqy).

-jh-