I pinged InfraAdmin offlist on the day he asked me to, told him where to find the files (already prepared in the format mod_mbox expects internally: gzipped mboxes in a particular naming pattern), and he acknowledged. So from where I'm sitting, the ball is in Infra's court.
Nathan Hartman wrote on Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:08 +00:00: > Ping... > > On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 9:54 PM Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hey Daniel, et al, > > > > Sorry to leave this hanging. I've been thinking on the best approach, but I > > do not have answer just yet. My initial thinking is that we are going to > > decommission mail-*.apache.org, so any solution basically means: backfill > > on lists.a.o. That is going to require some coordination with our vendor. > > I'm tending towards "yes", but the path isn't clear yet. > > > > There is zero problem with placing the archives onto our mbox machine for > > long-term archival/safety, and is likely a first step regardless. Hit me up > > offlist, and we can figure that part out. > > > > Cheers, > > Greg > > InfraAdmin, ASF > > (and old-school Subversion dude) > > > > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 3:30 PM Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> > > wrote: > >> > >> Pinging VP Infra. > >> > >> Daniel Shahaf wrote on Mon, 11 May 2020 15:35 +0000: > >> > Daniel Shahaf wrote on Wed, 29 Apr 2020 15:38 +0000: > >> > > I've opened an INFRA ticket for importing the dev@ and users@ archives: > >> > > > >> > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/INFRA/issues/INFRA-20213 > >> > > >> > Infra declined to merge the pre-Apache archives into the main archives. > >> > Instead they offered to host the pre-Apache archives on a service that's > >> > accessible only to Apache Software Foundation members, and even then > >> > available only on request. Infra also reminded us that we have the > >> > option of appealing their decision to VP Infra, … > >> > > >> > … which I hereby do. David, the Subversion PMC requests that its > >> > pre-Apache archives, about 240MB worth of gzipped mboxes, be publicly > >> > served by the Apache Software Foundation. Please let the project > >> > (Cc'd) know your answer. > >> > > >> > Cheers, > >> > > >> > Daniel > >> > > Hi all, > > It is important that we preserve the early years (pre-Apache) of our > mail archives, as that was the period of heaviest development and > those mails document technical rationale for our implementation. > > Is there a path forward? > > Thanks, > Nathan >
