Re: Suggestion: description / summary metadata for emails in mailing list archive

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 6:54 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2020-10-20 09:06:14 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Has somebody considered adding the twitter / opengraph summary stuff to
> > the mailing list archive?
> >
> > E.g. for
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/97df3af9-8b5e-fb7f-a029-3eb7e80d7af9%402ndquadrant.com
> > adding something along the lines of
> >
> > og:url
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/97df3af9-8b5e-fb7f-a029-3eb7e80d7af9%402ndquadrant.com
> > og:title Subject: select_common_typmod
> > og:site_name PostgreSQL mailing list archive
> > twitter:card summary
> > og:description First few words of email?
> > og:type article
> > og:article:author Peter Eisentraut
> > og:article:published_time Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:58:18 +0200
> > og:image https://www.postgresql.org/favicon.ico :)
> >
> > would make mailing list references be a bit more attractive to use in
> > slack, teams, twitter and whatnot.
>
> As an example I added the attributes to my email above, and copied the
> mailing list archive page. Didn't bother to adjust relative css/js
> references, so it'll look bad in a browser, obviously.
>
> modified: https://anarazel.de/t/2020-10-20/email-03.html
> original:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20201020160614.55b3dyupkojsdu5h%40alap3.anarazel.de

I don't think anybody has, but it certainly would make sense to do so!

Maybe it would actually also make sense to do so in the documentation pages
for example? (it would probalby be a lot of work to do it across *all* of
the website, but the docs could perhaps be singled out)?

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