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On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 08:58:36PM -0800, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: |
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> On 11/6/13 10:43 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> >> On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:18:43AM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> >>> 8. Revival of archives.gentoo.org |
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> >> |
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> >> There isn't any reference for this one, who's spear-heading it; as infra |
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> >> I'd like to know. We do have the raw emails for the archive, what's |
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> >> broken is strictly the web interface. |
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> > I am, and the only available reference is the announcement itself, see the |
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> > paragraph at the top about missing references :). |
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> > |
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> > My only intention for this topic so far is to ask my council colleagues for |
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> > their opinion on a general statement like "archives.gentoo.org functionality |
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> > was useful, and it would be nice to have our own online, definitive archive of |
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> > the more important mailing lists back working again at some point in the |
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> > future". |
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> Curious: does anyone have any doubts about usefulness of archives.g.o? |
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> Then, do you know what actually broke? It's really surprising to me |
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> since it seems that hardly anything changes there. |
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We used a custom template in mhonarc to generate a variant of |
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Guide/ProjectXML from the emails. Along with that template, there was |
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some custom code to ensure we generated consistent IDs even if the prior |
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mhonarc listing was damaged; so that a link to an email once it was |
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posted would always be consistent. |
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The parts above we still have... what we don't have, is some fixes that |
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allowed mhonarc to scale to the crazy number of emails we were putting |
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into the archive. It's default was generating an entire new index and |
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each message again, every time it was run. We hacked incremental support |
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onto there, that was lost. |
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Along with the rest of Gentoo that is moving away from Guide/ProjectXML; |
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archives need to move to the future, but it needs to be something |
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scalable. The archive of raw email itself exceeds 20GiB in size; more |
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than 75% of which should probably be public (the remaining fraction is |
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stuff like core/trustees/council etc). |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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