On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 at 19:18, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mailing lists are due to be migrated to a new server. > > This affects the data files generated and pushed to Whimsy which are > used to support mail list reporting. > > Rather than change the code to try to merge input from two sources, it > seemed simpler to merge the data from the old and new servers to > generate a single source. Once migration is complete, merging can be > switched off. > > The strategy is: > data from the existing server is pushed to Whimsy under /srv/subscriptions1 > data from the new server is pushed to Whimsy under /srv/subscriptions2 > > These pushes are done by cron jobs that run every 20 mins. > Following every update, the data will be merged to > /srv/subscriptions, where the code expects to find it.
This is now in place, so mailing list data should now include migrated lists (so far only infra.a.o; others are due to follow soon). > Once migration is complete, merging can be disabled, and the new > server can be updated to push its data directly to /srv/subscriptions. The plan is: - drop the hourly jobs that do the merging - change the two apmail scripts (listmodsubs.sh and whimsy_qmail_ids.sh) to push to /srv/subscriptions from the new server only. > Hopefully this will minimise any disruption caused by the migration. > > Sebb
