Hi guys, A bit of a long email ahead. Please do read. Important information ahead to give you a head's up on what to expect today.
A quick note on memberships: I haven't found an easy way to maintain people's passwords and their digest enabled/disabled flag. I don't want to spend a great deal more time in trying to make this work. So, in short, everybody who is currently subscribed will be moved over. You'll have to set your passwords again and turn digest modes back on if desired. There aren't too many people who use digest mode so I hope the global inconvenience isn't too great. That said, I'm moving the mailing lists today. I'll be starting this process shortly. In an attempt to prevent de-synchronizations (and subsequently extra work) I'm going to follow this process. I'm not going to send yet another email to all the lists after having sent so many already so this will serve as the head's up that downtime is imminent. Once this email is sent out and the email queue is empty (ie. everybody has received this email) I'll give some time to read it and make your final commits and posts. It's 9:45 AM CST right now. I'll start with the process outlined below (resulting in downtime) in approximately an hour. The process in a nutshell will be as follows: * Set every list to "moderate all" mode on old and new servers to prevent new messages from being delivered. This ensures the archives remain unchanged while they are uploaded to the new server. There's about 6 GB to upload, spanning 14 years. This will take some time. * Turn off Mailman services on both servers * Forward every Mailman related email address from old to new server. At this point any post attempts will end held in the new server's queue. They will remain there until all the archives and membership databases are imported. After the files are copied over I'll turn on Mailman services back (new server only) so databases can be imported. Moderate all mode will remain on for a while longer. After testing I'll turn the modes off on a per-list basis one at a time and send an "all clear" email to the list. In theory, no posts will get lost -- they just end up queued up for later delivery. However, I can't make guarantees that I won't have to flush a queue to fix problems that crop up. It would probably be best if you guys all avoid posting too much (or anything at all). You can of course try but you may end up having to re-send an email or two that gets lost. Website URLs to mailing list info and archive pages will be updated afterwards at some point as well. I don't have an ETA on all this. Please anticipate this taking the better part of the day. Thanks guys, Gerard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
