Re: archives.postgresql.org change

[Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 18:12 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We've just changed the archives site so that we only pull the mboxes
> > from hub.org, and mhonarc is run locally on archives.pg.org.  This is
> > quicker -- we're now regenerating the archives every 15 minutes.
> > 
> > Let me know (via this list, I guess) if anything weird crops up.
> 
> Why was this done without any warning to the -www or sysadmins team?

Sorry, I don't know the answer to that.  I kept looking for you, Dave or
Stefan on Jabber, but saw none.

> Aside from that, I assume you have verified that the search system still
> pulls things in properly? That's where I'd see a potential issue, but I
> don't have time to look into it right now (need to fix broken slides for
> tomorrows FOSDEM talks)

Good question -- I didn't.

> Oh, and since you've been fiddling it, please get some documentation up
> on pmt.

If you get me a password for accessing pmt, I'll gladly document the
whole shebang (which really needs some documenting -- the whole setup is
not entirely trivial).  Also, I'd like to put the scripts somewhere in a
community SCM (I put them in a CMD SVN as a temporary measure.)

> We didn't have any for the old one that I can find, but we'd
> really like some for the new one. (for one, we've been talking here at
> FOSDEM about auto-syncing some things about the lists between that one
> and the search stuff so we stop missing lists when they are added - and
> it'd be nice to have a documented system to work off for that one)

That would be nice -- also the current scripts to generate the list of
lists contain some duplicate info; it's no wonder that the lists has
been out of date continuously.  I can lend a hand with that as needed.

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