doc: Fix dead links to mailing list archives #31240

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   edilmedeiros commented at 1:59 pm on November 7, 2024: contributor

   Unfortunately, lists.linuxfoundation.org is no longer hosting any mailing list archives, not just for bitcoin-dev but all the other mailing lists too.

   I’m opening this to discuss how to best approach the fix.

   kanzure suggested in #29782 (comment):

   Wait and see if they put it back up.

   Update those locations in the source code to the proposed new urls like https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/c3f68b73-84c6-7428-4bf6-b47802141392@mattcorallo.com/ with the Message-ID in the url.

   Use https://gnusha.org/url/https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-February/016697.html style urls to help others fight web/bit rot for similar links on the web.

   The current PR takes approach 2, update old lists.linuxfoundation.org links with gnusha.org ones. I’ll implement approach 3 if that’s the consensus of the community.

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6. doc: Fix dead links to mailing list archives

   The developer mailing list was migrated to Google Groups in February 2024 as
   announced in https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/aewBuV6k-LI. The archives
   maintained by the Linux Foundation stopped updating in December 2023. See
   bitcoin#29782.
   
   The codebase refers to old discussions linked to the Linux Foundation archives.
   Unfortunately, as of November 2024, lists.linuxfoundation.org is no longer
   hosting any mailing list archives, not just for bitcoin-dev but all the other
   mailing lists too.
   
   Change all the links to `gnusha.org` archives.
   
   See bitcoin#31240.

   cd19dff18c
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    laanwj commented at 1:32 pm on November 9, 2024: member

    Concept ACK. It’s starting to look unlikely that the archives will be back.

    i slightly prefer the current approach to relying on the server-side URL mapping script, because pi archives are super easy to mirror locally, and then the canonical link will (i assume) just port over to the new domain. To also have to set up the mapping script locally is more work.

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    edilmedeiros commented at 1:40 pm on November 9, 2024: contributor

    I personally prefer to update the links because I can’t imagine the mess of updating this again in the future if gnusha is taken down and we end up with two indirections on the URLs.
12. kanzure referenced this in commit 55a92a59c1 on Nov 9, 2024
13. bitschmidty referenced this in commit 7d0572ab8a on Nov 11, 2024
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    maflcko commented at 1:35 pm on November 22, 2024: member

    Looks like the links aren’t dead, but redirects
15. 
    jonatack commented at 1:53 pm on November 22, 2024: member

    For more context: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1698#issuecomment-2486422338
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    laanwj commented at 11:11 am on November 23, 2024: member

    That’s unexpected! i hope they’ll stick with those redirects.

    At the least, there’s no urgency to this, this can be postponed until it becomes a problem again.

17. 
    fanquake commented at 11:55 am on December 2, 2024: member

    Will close this for now, and we can re open if/when it comes up again.
18. fanquake closed this on Dec 2, 2024

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