Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 13:25:14 -0700 From: Mark Millard via freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What happen to mailing list archives? Message-ID: <0E72BE08-BC5A-41F8-8048-C5E8ADE947AF@yahoo.com> References: <0E72BE08-BC5A-41F8-8048-C5E8ADE947AF.ref@yahoo.com>
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Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote on Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 10:53:49 +0200 : > What has happended: > plan A: we migrated everything off mailman/pipermail seamlessly with = redirection > and so on. We patched the new archiver to produce the same file names = has > pipermail >=20 > Plan A worked fine up to a limit, there was plenty of hand edition in = the past, > we we decided to move to plan B which is what is happening now. >=20 > Plan B: We keep a frozen version of the archives up to the migration = date under > the pipermail directory and have the new archives created in the = archives > directory. >=20 > All the pipermail archives have been restored as they were. The new = archives > receives in their index a new link to point people to the pipermails = archive if > looking for older archives. >=20 > this has been done a couple of hours ago (before Steve emails) during = a window, > of ~ 10 hours, the mailing lists which slow traffic aka the one which = didn't > received any email since the migration ended up with an empty = "archives" > directory (aka a 404), a file with explanation and redirection to = pipermail has > been installed there. >=20 > Some work is still needed for the mailing lists which has been = transformed as > readonly, this will be done in the next couple of days It is too bad that a reference to a "no examples yet" month, such as, (at the time I write this): https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-toolchain/2021-June/date.html does not show at least (Date view specific example): =E2=80=A2 Other periods:[ Previous, Date view ] [ List of = Folders ] =E2=80=A2 Other: [ Actives mailing lists ] [ Archives from = mailman's time ] when there are prior months available in https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/ or show at least just: =E2=80=A2 Other: [ Actives mailing lists ] [ Archives from = mailman's time ] when no prior months are available there. =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)
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