On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 9:17 PM Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > > Could someone take over, please? > > Looking at previous dev@ discussions of this ticket, we should also > double check a copy of the mboxes lives on some box that's owned by > Infra and backed up by Infra. (svn-qavm doesn't qualify) > > Thanks > > Daniel > > > Drew Foulks (Jira) wrote on Tue, 04 Jan 2022 13:24 +00:00: > > [ > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-20213?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel > > ] > > > > Drew Foulks updated INFRA-20213: > > -------------------------------- > > Review Date: (was: 18/Nov/21) > > Status: Waiting for user (was: Waiting for Infra) > > > > The archives from svn-qavm have been uploaded to lists. Please verify > > that everything looks as expected. > > > >> Backfill mailing list archives with the pre-Apache list archives > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> Key: INFRA-20213 > >> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-20213 > >> Project: Infrastructure > >> Issue Type: Task > >> Components: Backups, Mail Archives > >> Reporter: Daniel Shahaf > >> Assignee: Drew Foulks > >> Priority: Major > >> Labels: ReviewedByInfra > >> > >> The Subversion project would like the archives of its pre-Apache public > >> lists to be backed up on Apache hardware. That covers the period between > >> April 2000 and the creation of the *@subversion.apache.org mailing lists > >> in November 2009. > >> The data is on svn-qavm.apache.org:/x1/svn-haxx-se-mirror/ in the form of > >> monthly gzipped mboxes (the same format as mod_mbox's backend). The > >> overall size is about 240MB compressed. The data in 200004.gz through > >> 200910.gz (inclusive) is entirely new to ASF. The data in 200911.gz and > >> later contains messages both from the @subversion.apache.org lists (which > >> are already in ASF's archives, of course) and from the pre-Apache lists. > >> Ideally, we'd like the dev/ and users/ archives to be merged with the > >> archives of the dev@subversion.a.o and users@subversion.a.o mailing lists. > >> Would that be possible? > >> Please ignore the directory org/ for now. (The archives of org/ don't > >> correspond to an *@subversion.a.o mailing list, so they'll want to be > >> handled separately.) > >> Thanks! > > > > > > > > -- > > This message was sent by Atlassian Jira > > (v8.20.1#820001)
Did they really do it? Woohoo! For context, some time ago we asked Infra to backfill the lists.apache.org archives with our pre-ASF list archives and it appears that they have just done that for dev@ (from April 2000) and users@ (from July 2003). I browsed and manually compared a few samples to the same ones in our svn.haxx.se archives and it looks reasonable to me. The very first message in each list is the same in both archives. The only discrepancy I see is that lists.a.o seems to have *more* emails than svn.haxx.se for November 2009; I think there might have been a period of overlap when lists existed at both apache.org and tigris.org; if that's correct then it would account for that. In my testdrive, I don't see any problems. I'll wait a while before replying on INFRA-20213 to give others time to check it. What I can't verify is whether this is stored and backed up the same way as the 2009-present archives. I guess only Infra can tell us that. A big THANKS to Infra for doing this! Cheers, Nathan
