boxofrox / nix-discourse-ml-import

Document efforts and tooling to import mailing list archives into discourse for nixos-dev

Nix Effort to Import Mailing Archives into Discourse

This repository serves to cooordinate and document (from start to finish) efforts to obtain mailing list archives and develop scripts/programs to import them into Discourse.

If you'd like to contribute to this effort, Issues and PR's are welcome.

Use issues to track progress on tasks.

References

• Related topic on NixOS Discourse [1]

Tasks

• Download archive for nixos.org/nix-dev mailing list (2004-2017).
• Write script to import nix-dev mailing list. Issues: #1
• Obtain archive of google-groups topics.
• How to set up private Discourse server. Issues: #2
• Testing import with private Discourse server.

Documentation

• Obtaining nixos.org Mailing List Archive

[1]: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/import-the-mailing-list/66/17