[om-infra] Mailing list migration and next steps
rugyada
rugyada at gmail.com
Sat Jan 16 03:35:26 EST 2016
Done in forums and discourse.
I cannot access WP dashboard sorry.
2016-01-16 8:49 GMT+01:00 Anurag Bhandari <ab at anuragbhandari.com>:
> 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 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:
>>
>> List personal preferences, such as digest options, subscriptions password
>> & settings, etc.
>> Non-English display names (eg., Raphael's, Bero's, etc.)
>> 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
>
>
>
>
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> May the Source be with you
> anuragbhandari.com
>
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