[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Mailman upgrade

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi Karl,

I knew that it is planned to revamp the mail system.
I guess nobody wants to work on a setup that will disappear within 3 months.

What do you think we can lose on list.gnu.org?

Also, I recently cleaned-up moderation requests for a closed
mailing-list and saw we have ~100000 pending requests (in
/var/mailman/data). Interesting point is: we have the privileges to
act on this data, and we could delete requests that belong to deleted
lists, or that are more than 3 months old, for example.

I think that would speed up things a bit anyway, because accessing
this directory is really slow, Mailman must do so on a regular basis
to send daily mail about pending request, and this will stay that way
whatever mail system we use (unless the Mailman people started
splitting this directory in later versions).

Maybe we can talk with sysadmin about this issue and see what we can
do right now, what do you think?

-- 
Sylvain

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 03:51:57PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
>     Did you actually ask sysadmin to add the Maiman queue auto-purging
>     feature? If not yet, would you mind keeping Savannah hackers in Cc?
> 
> I did, and here is what Justin replied ... feel free to forward to the
> appropriate savannah list.  (I don't know any more about the upgrade
> than what is stated here.  I hope that we won't lose everything we've
> done.)
> 
> 
> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:22:27 -0500
> From: "Justin Baugh via RT" <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: [gnu.org #272260] mailman upgrade to 2.1.7 on lists.gnu.org 
> 
> > It would be nice to upgrade mailman on lists.gnu.org to the current
> > version, because there is a new option max_days_to_hold which could be
> > used to avoid queues of unmaintained lists growing without bound, as
> > they do now.  (There are some lists with thousands of pending messages,
> > sigh.  Continuing to work on that.)
> > 
> > The feature was actually added in 2.1.6, but since 2.1.7 is the latest ...
> 
> This would be fairly difficult to do on the current lists.gnu.org due to
>  the rustiness of the distribution on it; thankfully, we will be
> replacing the entire mail & list system with two new quad Opteron
> machines by the end of March - lists will be totally redone and upgraded
> during that process.