[sf-lug] SF-LUG list backups, wiki, etc.

[Michael Paoli]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM Michael Paoli
<michael.paoli at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> FYI, the BALUG VM (which also hosts sf-lug.org, etc., but not the SF-LUG list)
> does also continue to pick up copies of the SF-LUG list roster and mbox archive.
> Rick and I set that up many moons ago.
> And the raw mbox file is available for anyone to download and save copy of:
> http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2025q4/016168.html
> Also, recent copy also continues to be available here:
> https://www.sf-lug.org/sf-lug.mbox/sf-lug.mbox
> And theoretically also version control history under here:
> https://www.sf-lug.org/sf-lug.mbox/
> but looks like that's not presently visible/accessible.  I'll add
> correcting that
> to my todo list, but not a top item, and that list is over 6,700 lines
> long ... and it
> generally grows faster than things get removed from it.

And ... one less thing to do on my todo list.  Would be good/better if
I sometimes remembered to read my own documentation.  So ...
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=sf-lug:resources_etc#list
Yes the version control history of that (the file thereof) is available:
https://www.sf-lug.org/sf-lug.mbox/RCS/sf-lug.mbox,v
So, no changes needed on that to access it.  So ... half an item less
on my todo list.  But
https://www.sf-lug.org/sf-lug.mbox/
doesn't list the RCS directory - so at least in theory I ought eventually
fix that ... but that's (much) lower priority, as the access itself is there,
and the wiki page also gives the URL.  Thinking of which ...

On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM Michael Paoli <michael.paoli at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Yeah, that'd be good.  Site does also have wiki, so, could potentially
> have wiki page of, e.g. to-do and wish-list items for the SF-LUG site.
> Might even possibly already have a wiki page that (partly) covers that, if
> I dig a bit ... though it's likely relatively out-of-date.
> Yeah, ... only a handful of SF-LUG specific wiki pages (does have its own
> dedicated namespace, as the wiki is shared among multiple LUGs and some
> other resources).  Can have a peek here:
> https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?do=index&idx=sf-lug
> And maybe I'll update a wee bit, but probably most of those pages are either
> out-of-date, or stale/old ... though some may still be of (significant?)
> historical interest.  But hey, it's wiki, so one cal also always look at older
> versions of pages too - if/when that's rather/quite relevant.

So, SF-LUG wiki pages, mostly pretty stale / out-of-date / historical,
notably excepting:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=sf-lug:resources_etc
And I did just update it a bit, so I think at present it's quite current.
Yes, sometimes it's good for me to read my own documentation.  :-)