I am not sure what the official position is re the mail archive site. AFAIK it mirrors posts to the official lists which are maintained by the GnuCash team and moderated by Liz. I just find it much easier to locate posts and threads on the mail archive site that in the official mailing lists.
david Cousens On Mon, 2025-02-10 at 11:34 +0900, Bo Buckley wrote: > Thank you for the links David. That is helpful. Is this link not > listed in the docs anywhere? If not, are you not seeing a bunch of > duplicate questions in the mailing lists? Seems like having a clearly > explained method for searching for duplicates would be of somewhat > high priority to keep the lists from being overwhelming. > > I didn't see any response from Liz though. Still confused on how this > email list is supposed to work if I'm not seeing all replies to my > question. > > Thanks again > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM David Cousens > <davidcousen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > As well as the method Liz mentioned it is also possible to access > > and > > search the mailing list archives at > > > > https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-user@gnucash.org/ > > > > https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-devel@gnucash.org/ > > > > You need to have existing membership of the mailing list. I cannot > > remember whether or not this site will request membership if you > > are > > not already a list member. > > > > David Cousens > > > > > > On Sun, 2025-02-09 at 20:21 +0900, Bo Buckley wrote: > > > In the docs: > > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash_Forum > > > > > > If claims: > > > > > > > The *GnuCash project* does *not* use ancient *forum* software > > for > > > > its > > > > online user support. It uses mailing list technology. > > > > > > > > > I'm completely lost as to the advantage of using a mailing list > > over > > > an > > > indexed searchable forum, Github Discussions, or otherwise. In > > > particular > > > I'm really struggling to find a way to find if my existing issue > > has > > > already been discussed somewhere as the only thing indexed > > appears to > > > be > > > bugzilla and the FAQs. > > > > > > According to the mailing list docs: > > > > > > > Currently, there is no on-site mechanism to search the mailing > > > > lists > > > > *and the search link on the archive page is broken.*Instead, > > use > > > > the term > > > > "site:lists.gnucash.org" at Google or Yahoo! to search within > > the > > > > archives, e.g. > > > > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alists.gnucash.org+string+to+search > > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure if this worked well at one point, but it definitely > > does > > > not > > > work well for me now. See attached screenshot. It appears > > Google's > > > crawler > > > somehow finds its way to all the docs and other general content > > via > > > the > > > lists.gnucash.org, so it is not filtering out hardly anything as > > I > > > would > > > expect. The only alternative approach I can find is to browse > > (not > > > search) > > > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/, which I think > > > everyone > > > can appreciate to not be an exactly speedy process. > > > > > > Is there a better way to verify existing discussions/issues > > > (including this > > > one)? > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gnucash-user mailing list > > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > > ----- > > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
