Re: A place to discuss Perl language design questions

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 10:18:33PM +0100, Perl 5 Porters wrote:
> * Marc Chantreux <[email protected]> [2026-03-20 14:50]:
> > What about our hability to keep record of everything whatever github
> > becomes in the future? (same for reddit)
> 
> Either way though, in terms of archival accessibility, even at their
> current reasonably comparable level, both Reddit and GitHub are a far
> cry from email mailing lists. Someone would have to write the code to
> make these archives and then continuously run it, and it’s not obvious
> what format the archives should be in in order to be readily digestible,
> whereas for email, there are multiple possible obvious answers to all
> such questions.

I receive emails for every issue, PR and discussion on the perl
repositories. I assume that subscribing some archival bot to would
provide some kind of email archive. I don't think it receives updates
for edits on messages, but that its already a form of archival.

-- 
 Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

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