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

[Terry Karlson]

E. Weddington wrote:
> Terry Karlson wrote:
> > (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

Oh, what I meant was that at 
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/avr-libc, the link to a mailing list 
only shows the development list, not avr-chat and avr-gcc-list.

However, I guess that makes sense given what you said later:

> 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.

OK, but then my concern becomes: how would a newcomer find these lists? 
 They're not linked to at the avr-libc homepage 
(http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc), nor from the avr-libc Savannah project 
page.

I did just notice that if in Savannah I search for "avr" rather than 
"avr-libc", one of the hits I get is the umbrella project, with 
"...other public resources like mailing lists could be run here."  If 
that's the most direct way to these lists, it doesn't seem obvious nor 
immediate enough.

-T