Digging into the community's lore with lei

Posted Dec 20, 2021 2:04 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
Parent article: Digging into the community's lore with lei

> The email-based infrastructure underlying it all could become an implementation detail that users need not worry about if it does not interest them.

Hopefully because this is not quite there yet:

> lei q -I https://lore.kernel.org/all/ -o ~/Mail/floppy \
> --threads --dedupe=mid \
> '(dfn:drivers/block/floppy.c OR dfhh:floppy_* OR s:floppy \
> OR ((nq:bug OR nq:regression) AND nq:floppy)) \
> AND rt:1.month.ago..'

I'm not saying there is something wrong with this search syntax, I mean it shouldn't be required for a quick search before making a drive-by documentation or small bug fix.

But I'm not optimistic because http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html...
> Data is more tractable than program logic. It follows that where you see a choice between complexity in data structures and complexity in code, choose the former.

Whether email-based development infrastructure has a bright future or not, these tools seem extremely useful today.