Thread: Need "subscribe to this list" link from archives
WWW, In the changes to archives.postgresql.org, the link for "subscribe to this list" got eliminated entirely. As a result, someone browsing pgsql-performance archives and got there from google, for example, has no idea how to subscribe to -performance unless they're already familiar with our site structure. We should have a link on every page of the archives to the subscription form, at least. Thanks! -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > WWW, > > In the changes to archives.postgresql.org, the link for "subscribe to > this list" got eliminated entirely. As a result, someone browsing > pgsql-performance archives and got there from google, for example, has > no idea how to subscribe to -performance unless they're already familiar > with our site structure. > > We should have a link on every page of the archives to the subscription > form, at least. Thanks! Doesn't seem unreasonable. Can you provide a patch? --Magnus HaganderMe: http://www.hagander.net/Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
>> We should have a link on every page of the archives to the subscription >> form, at least. Thanks! > > Doesn't seem unreasonable. Can you provide a patch? I don't actually know where the archive-populating code lives. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > >>> We should have a link on every page of the archives to the subscription >>> form, at least. Thanks! >> >> Doesn't seem unreasonable. Can you provide a patch? > > I don't actually know where the archive-populating code lives. Unsurprisingly, it's on git.postgresql.org: http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgarchives.git;a=summary --Magnus HaganderMe: http://www.hagander.net/Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
> Unsurprisingly, it's on git.postgresql.org: > http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgarchives.git;a=summary Ah, I was hunting through the pgweb code. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
On 06/12/2013 01:56 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > >> Unsurprisingly, it's on git.postgresql.org: >> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgarchives.git;a=summary > > Ah, I was hunting through the pgweb code. So where does it make sense to put it? Right below "Search", or in the left-hand menu? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
On 06/12/2013 02:02 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > On 06/12/2013 01:56 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: >> >>> Unsurprisingly, it's on git.postgresql.org: >>> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgarchives.git;a=summary >> >> Ah, I was hunting through the pgweb code. > > So where does it make sense to put it? Right below "Search", or in the > left-hand menu? I can't come up with any way to create a "subscribe to mailing list X" link, as opposed to the general subscription form. Thoughts? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > On 06/12/2013 02:02 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: >> On 06/12/2013 01:56 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: >>> >>>> Unsurprisingly, it's on git.postgresql.org: >>>> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgarchives.git;a=summary >>> >>> Ah, I was hunting through the pgweb code. >> >> So where does it make sense to put it? Right below "Search", or in the >> left-hand menu? > > I can't come up with any way to create a "subscribe to mailing list X" > link, as opposed to the general subscription form. Thoughts? Maybe it's enough to just have a well-placed link to the general subscription form? --Magnus HaganderMe: http://www.hagander.net/Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
> Maybe it's enough to just have a well-placed link to the general > subscription form? That was my attention at first, except that there are a couple hundred lists on the "choose list" drop-down, and they're alphabetically ordered, which means the first two dozen or so are region-specific lists. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > >> Maybe it's enough to just have a well-placed link to the general >> subscription form? > > That was my attention at first, except that there are a couple hundred > lists on the "choose list" drop-down, and they're alphabetically > ordered, which means the first two dozen or so are region-specific lists. Uh? It's 77 lists. Of which 69 are shown. That's pretty far from "a couple of hundred". That said, it would be nice to make that thing a bit neater. Not sure how easy it is to do under the standard form, but with a custom template we should be able to use optgroup tags at least. That should make it more user friendly - you think it would be enough? Otherwise I guess we could create one form for each subgroup - e.g. a /community/lists/subscribe/developer/. But that seems like a worse solution to the potential problem. Actually, maybe a good option is to link to /community/lists/subscribe/#pgsql-hackers (or whatever), and then have a javascript run on that page that sets the default value of the dropdown to whatever is in the anchor link? --Magnus HaganderMe: http://www.hagander.net/Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
On 06/18/2013 06:05 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > Actually, maybe a good option is to link to > /community/lists/subscribe/#pgsql-hackers (or whatever), and then have > a javascript run on that page that sets the default value of the > dropdown to whatever is in the anchor link? This would be my first choice. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > On 06/18/2013 06:05 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> Actually, maybe a good option is to link to >> /community/lists/subscribe/#pgsql-hackers (or whatever), and then have >> a javascript run on that page that sets the default value of the >> dropdown to whatever is in the anchor link? > > This would be my first choice. Whould work now, e.g. http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe/#19 --Magnus HaganderMe: http://www.hagander.net/Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
On 06/20/2013 08:15 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: >> On 06/18/2013 06:05 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: >>> Actually, maybe a good option is to link to >>> /community/lists/subscribe/#pgsql-hackers (or whatever), and then have >>> a javascript run on that page that sets the default value of the >>> dropdown to whatever is in the anchor link? >> >> This would be my first choice. > > Whould work now, e.g. http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe/#19 That works. How do I figure out the numbers, though? And are they stable? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > On 06/20/2013 08:15 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: >>> On 06/18/2013 06:05 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: >>>> Actually, maybe a good option is to link to >>>> /community/lists/subscribe/#pgsql-hackers (or whatever), and then have >>>> a javascript run on that page that sets the default value of the >>>> dropdown to whatever is in the anchor link? >>> >>> This would be my first choice. >> >> Whould work now, e.g. http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe/#19 > > That works. How do I figure out the numbers, though? And are they stable? It's the "id" surrogate key from the db. It's also what's present in the <option value=#> part which is what it matches on. And yes, they're stable. --Magnus HaganderMe: http://www.hagander.net/Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/