Re: [ros-users] Idea for wiki macro -- link to mailing list …

I like the option of having both. Only the Lurker one allows linking
to a specific message, but as you point out, LurkerSearch is a bit
easier to understand.

Maybe rename Lurker to LurkerLink or LurkerURL or something?

Pat

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Ken Conley <kwc@willowgarage.com> wrote:
> Any preference for one or the other?  If we keep both, I'd probably
> want to rename the 'Lurker' one to better distinguish them.
>
>  - Ken
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Patrick Bouffard
> <bouffard@eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> Looks great Ken. Thanks for implementing that!
>>
>> Pat
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Ken Conley <kwc@willowgarage.com> wrote:
>>> I done two prototypes here:
>>>
>>> http://www.ros.org/wiki/KenConley
>>>
>>> <<Lurker(search/20380101.000000.00000000@th:d2ff88fe)>>
>>> <<LurkerSearch(th:d2ff88fe ml:ros-users)>>
>>> <<LurkerSearch(roslaunch machines ml:ros-users)>>
>>>
>>> In the case of LurkerSearch, you can use any number of search arguments.
>>>
>>> Thus far, I'm preferring the 'Search' macro as the arguments I think
>>> are easier to explain -- basically anything you would type into the
>>> search box.
>>>
>>>  - Ken
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Patrick Bouffard
>>> <bouffard@eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>> Good points Eric.
>>>>
>>>> Probably the tree view is better for threads. Looking at bit more at
>>>> the Lurker URLs, I think we can actually get both behaviours with one
>>>> macro:
>>>>
>>>> <<Lurker(ARG)>>
>>>>
>>>> ...translates to:
>>>>
>>>> https://code.ros.org/lurker/<ARG>.en.html
>>>>
>>>> ...and <ARG> can be, for a link to a particular message:
>>>>
>>>> message/<YYYYMMDD.UTCTIME.hashcode>
>>>>
>>>> ...or for its associated thread:
>>>>
>>>> thread/<YYYYMMDD.UTCTIME.hashcode>
>>>>
>>>> Pat
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Eric Perko <wisesage5001@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Patrick Bouffard
>>>>> <bouffard@eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think that it's simply:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://code.ros.org/lurker/search/20380101.000000.00000000@th:<id>.en.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This error page is actually pretty
>>>>> revealing: https://code.ros.org/lurker/search/20380101.000000.0000000@ml:ros-users,th:d2ff88fe.en.xml .
>>>>> Note that at the end it specifies what format it expects. The Date/Time
>>>>> included in there seems to be what the "Jump" button at the bottom of the
>>>>> search page sets. For displaying a single thread it probably doesn't matter.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The 20380101 looks to be a default date that's far in the future. I
>>>>>> noticed that the same result will come up with the mailing list name
>>>>>> added, i.e.:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://code.ros.org/lurker/search/20380101.000000.00000000@ml:ros-users,th:d2ff88fe.en.xml
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And this might be good to add to the macro even if only the id is
>>>>>> required to specify the thread completely--that way by looking at the
>>>>>> link you're about to click you can see what list it will be taking you
>>>>>> to.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So how about:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lurker<<LISTNAME, ID>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> becomes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://code.ros.org/lurker/search/20380101.000000.00000000@ml:<LISTNAME>,th:<ID>.en.xml
>>>>>
>>>>> Another option would be to bypass the search completely and go straight to
>>>>> the thread view.
>>>>> e.g.: https://code.ros.org/lurker/thread/20090401.024344.009c814d.en.html .
>>>>> That seems to be formatted like <YYYYMMDD.UTCTIME.hashcode>.<language for
>>>>> interface>.html . The date/time in that case corresponds to the date that
>>>>> the thread was started. There is a similar syntax for the /message if we
>>>>> wanted to be able to link to a specific message.
>>>>> Is it more useful to have the search view for the thread or the the tree
>>>>> view for the thread?
>>>>> - Eric
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pat
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Ken Conley <kwc@willowgarage.com> wrote:
>>>>>> > This does sound useful.  If you can figure out the algorithm/API for
>>>>>> > expanding
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > d2ff88fe
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > to
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > https://code.ros.org/lurker/search/20380101.000000.00000000@th:d2ff88fe.en.html
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I would be happy to turn it into a macro on our Wiki.  I don't know
>>>>>> > enough about Lurker and the URL-generation scheme isn't as obvious as
>>>>>> > our other macros (e.g. Youtube, Trac).
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >  - Ken
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Patrick Bouffard
>>>>>> > <bouffard@eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> >> It's often the case that for some particular item on the wiki there is
>>>>>> >> much more information available in discussions in the mailing lists,
>>>>>> >> though it's not practical (or even a good idea) to add all that detail
>>>>>> >> to the wiki itself. As the list archives grow however it's becoming
>>>>>> >> harder to find relevant information by a simple keyword search.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> We can currently link to wiki pages from the mailing list simply by
>>>>>> >> pasting in the appropriate URL. Could we also enable the reverse, with
>>>>>> >> a wiki macro that links to the lurker archive of a particular thread?
>>>>>> >> Similar to the bug tracker macro. So something like:
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> <<Lurker(THREAD_ID)>>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> e.g.,
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> <<Lurker(d2ff88fe)>>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> .. would expand to:
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> https://code.ros.org/lurker/search/20380101.000000.00000000@th:d2ff88fe.en.html
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> And would be rendered with something like *[ML], where * is a little
>>>>>> >> envelope icon or something like that.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> Then in the wiki we can add these links pointing to discussion threads
>>>>>> >> that are relevant to that part of the wiki. This could include threads
>>>>>> >> on ros-developers that relate to design decisions, or threads on
>>>>>> >> ros-users that have some detailed discussion on some feature.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> I'm not sure if this is technically possible, but perhaps the mailing
>>>>>> >> list could even be configured so that the lurker thread id is printed
>>>>>> >> at the bottom of every message to make it dead easy to know what
>>>>>> >> thread id to use.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> Cheers,
>>>>>> >> Pat
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