Re: [avr-chat] off-topic?: resource URL's

[E. Weddington]

Terry Karlson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've just begun checking out the avr-libc community and resources, and

Welcome!

> have been somewhat confused as to some of the URL linking.  The old QA
> person in me thought I should summarize and relay my experience.  Not
> being clear to me in all cases as to where this should be sent, I just
> posted it here.
>
> (1) The homepage of avr-libc project (http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc)
> links to savannah at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/avr-libc
> ("AVR C Runtime Library - Summary").  Is this the correct place to link
> to?  It only links to the development mailing list, for example.
I'm not quite sure what you are talking about. The first link is the 
avr-libc Home Page. The second link is the avr-libc Project Page on 
Savannah. The second link is not *just* the mailing list; that would be 
here: http://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=avr-libc

The avr-libc Project Page has many things about the whole avr-libc 
project: Bug Tracker, Task Manager, Patch Manager, Link to Home Page, 
Link to mailing lists, Download Area, News, Links to project members, etc.

In summary, the above is correct.

> (2) If I happen to be starting at savannah's homepage
> http://savannah.nongnu.org, and search for "avr-libc", I also get to the
> "AVR C Runtime Library - Summary" as in (2) above, with the same concern.
Correct, for same reason.

> (3) A few weeks ago, I had bookmarked a few links
> (http: //www.avr1.org/*) to the avr-gcc-list info page and into the
> archives.  Today, I found that these pages told me that the list had
> moved to https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/avr.  When I go there, I
> get the '"Super-Project" for AVR-related projects - Summary' page (null
> umbrella project).  Clicking on "Mailing Lists" takes me to
> https://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=avr, which has links to avr-chat
> and avr-gcc-list, the latter of which is finally what I wanted.  So, I
> guess here I'm (a) idly wondering what is different about these pages
> that calls for https, and 

Got me. I don't know why you're getting https as opposed to http. I 
usually get the https whenever I'm logged into Savannah, which is 
basically all the time. :-) You'll have to ask the Savannah folks.

> (b) wondering why, if they are the ones that contain links to the 
> non-dev mailing lists, I don't seem to be directed there from the top 
> (i.e. as in (1) & (2) above.)
Do you mean from the Savannah top?
When you search in Savannah, you are searching for Free/Open Source 
*projects*. They will search for project names, not mailing list names. 
The avr-gcc-list and avr-chat mailing lists were originally privately 
run. Recently, the owner of those lists, Jason Kyle, no longer wanted to 
host the lists so we got hosting from Savannah. Since these lists are 
not officially tied to any Savannah "Project", an "umbrella" project was 
created to host those lists.

HTH
Eric