[GNC] Searching mailing lists

Sat Mar 1 16:57:12 EST 2025

Since you're replying to this thread, you might have noticed https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2025-February/115508.html, which was sent by the mail list maintainer, Derek. In that message, Derek explained versions and plans. 

⁣David T. 

On Mar 1, 2025, 9:40 PM, at 9:40 PM, Brad Morrison <bradmorrison at sonic.net> wrote:
>Hi David/GNUCash users, 
>
>Thanks for that GnuCash mailing lists link! 
>
>https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >
>https://lists.gnucash.org/search/?idxinfo=gnucash-user >
>https://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com//GnuCash-User-f1415819.html does
>not work for me right now (server not found), is anyone else also
>seeing
>that issue? 
>
>https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo - it also looks like the
>GNUCash mailing lists are using version 2.1.29 of the Mailman software
>-
>https://list.org/ 
>
>According to https://list.org/ - "Current Version The current stable
>GNU
>Mailman versions are: 01-Oct-2024 Mailman 3.3.10 (Tom Sawyer)
>13-Dec-2021 Mailman 2.1.39" 
>
>Does GNUCash have any plans to upgrade the mailing lists
>(https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists &
>https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo) to the current version of
>Mailman 2 (2.1.39) or, even better, the current version of Mailman 3
>(3.3.10)? 
>
>---
>Thanks, 
>
>Brad - https://www.facebook.com/brad.morrison.12327/ &
>https://nextdoor.com/profile/01mP46jj8KCzj3sP4 &
>https://norcal.social/@BradMorrison 
>
>On 2025-02-09 22:23, sunfish62--- via gnucash-user wrote:
>
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists
>> 
>> ⁣David T.
>> 
>> On Feb 10, 2025, 8:23 AM, at 8:23 AM, David Cousens
><davidcousens49 at gmail.com> wrote: I am not sure what the official
>position is re the mail archive site.
>> AFAIK it mirrors posts to the official lists which are maintained by
>> the GnuCash team and moderated by Liz. I just find it much easier to
>> locate posts and threads on the mail archive site that in the
>official
>> mailing lists.
>> 
>> david Cousens
>> 
>> On Mon, 2025-02-10 at 11:34 +0900, Bo Buckley wrote: Thank you for
>the links David. That is helpful. Is this link not
>> listed in the docs anywhere? If not, are you not seeing a bunch of
>> duplicate questions in the mailing lists? Seems like having a clearly
>> explained method for searching for duplicates would be of somewhat
>> high priority to keep the lists from being overwhelming. 
>> 
>> I didn't see any response from Liz though. Still confused on how this
>> email list is supposed to work if I'm not seeing all replies to my
>> question. 
>> 
>> Thanks again
>> 
>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM David Cousens
>> <davidcousens49 at gmail.com> wrote: 
>> As well as the method Liz mentioned it is also possible to access
>> and
>> search the mailing list archives at 
>> 
>> https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-user@gnucash.org/
>> 
>> https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-devel@gnucash.org/
>> 
>> You need to have existing membership of the mailing list. I cannot
>> remember whether or not this site will request membership if you
>> are
>> not already a list member.
>> 
>> David Cousens
>> 
>> On Sun, 2025-02-09 at 20:21 +0900, Bo Buckley wrote: In the docs:
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash_Forum
>> 
>> If claims:
>> 
>> The *GnuCash project* does *not* use ancient *forum* software
> for 
>
>>> its
>>> online user support. It uses mailing list technology.
>> 
>> I'm completely lost as to the advantage of using a mailing list
> over 
>
>> an
>> indexed searchable forum, Github Discussions, or otherwise. In
>> particular
>> I'm really struggling to find a way to find if my existing issue
> has 
>
>> already been discussed somewhere as the only thing indexed
> appears to 
>
>> be
>> bugzilla and the FAQs.
>> 
>> According to the mailing list docs:
>> 
>>> Currently, there is no on-site mechanism to search the mailing
>>> lists
>>> *and the search link on the archive page is broken.*Instead,
> use 
>
>>> the term
>>> "site:lists.gnucash.org" at Google or Yahoo! to search within
> the 
>
>>> archives, e.g.
>
>http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alists.gnucash.org+string+to+search
>
>
>> I'm not sure if this worked well at one point, but it definitely does
>not
>> work well for me now. See attached screenshot. It appears Google's
>crawler
>> somehow finds its way to all the docs and other general content via
>the
>> lists.gnucash.org, so it is not filtering out hardly anything as I
>would
>> expect. The only alternative approach I can find is to browse (not
>search)
>> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/, which I think
>> everyone
>> can appreciate to not be an exactly speedy process.
>> 
>> Is there a better way to verify existing discussions/issues
>> (including this
>> one)?
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