[om-infra] Mailing list migration and next steps

Anurag Bhandari ab at anuragbhandari.com
Sat Jan 16 02:49:43 EST 2016


Hello,

I request somebody please add the following announcement to our blog. For
some reason, logging into the blog results into a "webpage is not
available" browser error (tried in Chrome, Opera). I think we should handle
this announcement urgently as our users may wonder why some things are off.
Ben has already reported the problem of his old password not working.

*Recent mailing list migration*
We have successfully completed migration of all our mailing lists (MLs) to
a new server. This should solve the problem of delayed email delivery that
we have faced intermittently in the past.

What went well?
-----------------------
Configuration and member lists for each ML remain unaffected.

What didn't go well?
-----------------------------
Mail archives before Dec 31, 2015 are not available in the new setup. If
you want access to our previously public archives, please drop us a line at
om-infra at ml.openmandriva.org

How does this affect you?
-------------------------------------
For the most part, MLs continue to work seamlessly and you shouldn't notice
a disruption. However, list personal preferences, such as digest options,
subscriptions password & settings, etc. may have changed for you. Please
log into individual lists <http://ml.openmandriva.org/mailman/listinfo/>
and verify your preferences.

During the course of our testing, we haven't found any breaking problems
with the new ML setup. If you've noticed anything wrong, please feel free
to reach out to us at om-infra at ml.openmandriva.org.

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Anurag Bhandari <ab at anuragbhandari.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Yesterday my attempt at migrating all 16 of our MLs from my previous
> webhost to the new one was successful. So far I haven't seen any problems,
> and (at least) Infra and Cooker MLs are working fine.
>
> There are some things, though, that could not be migrated primarily
> because I had to recreate all mailman lists manually on my new webhost's
> server. They are:
>
>    1. List personal preferences, such as digest options, subscriptions
>    password & settings, etc.
>    2. Non-English display names (eg., Raphael's, Bero's, etc.)
>    3. Archives - although I couldn't import the archives into the new
>    lists, I do have a recent backup of all our ML archives. I'll pass it on to
>    the Infra team for it to be stored on one of OM's servers.
>
> I think it's important to make a *brief announcement* of the same (esp.
> points 1 and 2) to our OMA community knows what they have lost in the
> transition. I request the Comm Team to take this up on blog.
>
> Btw, the URL of web interface to access MLs has changed a bit. New URLs
> can be found here:
>
> https://secure.waynesallee.com/openmandriva/infrawiki/index.php?title=MailMan#Current_Listing
>
> --
> May the Source be with you
> anuragbhandari.com <http://www.anuragbhandari.com>
>



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