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. -- Mark Zealey (aka JALH on irc.openprojects.net: #zealos and many more) mark@zealos.org mark@itsolve.co.uk UL++++>$ G!>(GCM/GCS/GS/GM) dpu? s:-@ a16! C++++>$ P++++>+++++$ L+++>+++++$ !E---? W+++>$ N- !o? !w--- O? !M? !V? !PS !PE--@ PGP+? r++ !t---?@ !X---? !R- b+ !tv b+ DI+ D+? G+++ e>+++++ !h++* r!-- y-- (www.geekcode.com) -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
