Mail server maintenance on Tuesday, 6th December

[Colin Finck]

Hi all!

Our IServ system used for mail and mailing lists will be down for 
maintenance on

      TUESDAY, 6TH DECEMBER 2022
      15:00 ~ 17:00 UTC

During this time, you won't be able to send or receive any mails using 
your @reactos.org address. Other servers sending mail to your 
@reactos.org address will usually try again after the maintenance.


This time, the mailing lists may be down for a few more hours though.
Our currently used Mailman 2 mailing list software is no longer 
supported, and we need to upgrade it to Mailman 3.
However, Mailman 3 has been rewritten from scratch, so the upgrade won't 
be straightforward. For instance, Mailman 3 comes with a new web 
interface with new URLs, breaking all existing URLs to mailing list 
posts. The best we can do to keep URLs intact is keeping them in their 
current state forever, with a link to the new archives for new posts 
(like the Python Project did for 
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/).
This is probably better than closing mailing lists altogether (like 
GNOME did: 
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/27/the_gnome_project_is_closing/).

Not that we've been using ros-dev much lately. But it's still the 
primary spot to reach out to all developers. And I assume even more 
people are relying on ros-bugs and ros-diffs for their work. Please 
speak up if you're still using them.


Other services won't be affected by this migration. In particular, all 
means of communication through Mattermost and the website/forums will 
stay live.


Best regards,

Colin Finck

[Colin Finck]

Hi all!

It took a while, but the mail server and mailing list migration is 
finally done!

Say hello to https://lists.reactos.org -- which provides a much better 
web interface to browse, search, and manage our mailing lists.
I've migrated ros-announce, ros-dev, ros-diffs, ros-general, and 
ros-priv. I saw no need for migrating any other lists, though this could 
be done any time (with full archives) if the need arises.
If you're subscribed to any of these lists, nothing changes for you. You 
will continue to receive your mails as usual.
If you want to change your settings, you will need to create an account 
at https://lists.reactos.org. You can connect that account to one or 
more E-Mail addresses and configure your subscription settings for all 
ReactOS mailing lists. The previous autogenerated per-subscription 
passwords no longer apply.

We're still providing the old archives at e.g. 
https://reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev to keep existing URLs intact. 
However, they are no longer updated (and point to the URL of the new 
archives).

Let me know if anything broke or if you find any broken URLs to the old 
mailing lists. Or better fix them right away :)

Kudos go again to Martin von Wittich from IServ GmbH, who provided 
valuable assistance during the migration!

Best regards,

Colin


Am 30.11.2022 um 18:10 schrieb Colin Finck:
>   Hi all!
>  
>  Our IServ system used for mail and mailing lists will be down for 
>  maintenance on
>  
>        TUESDAY, 6TH DECEMBER 2022
>        15:00 ~ 17:00 UTC
>  
>  During this time, you won't be able to send or receive any mails using 
>  your @reactos.org address. Other servers sending mail to your 
>  @reactos.org address will usually try again after the maintenance.
>  
>  
>  This time, the mailing lists may be down for a few more hours though.
>  Our currently used Mailman 2 mailing list software is no longer 
>  supported, and we need to upgrade it to Mailman 3.
>  However, Mailman 3 has been rewritten from scratch, so the upgrade won't 
>  be straightforward. For instance, Mailman 3 comes with a new web 
>  interface with new URLs, breaking all existing URLs to mailing list 
>  posts. The best we can do to keep URLs intact is keeping them in their 
>  current state forever, with a link to the new archives for new posts 
>  (like the Python Project did for 
>  https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/).
>  This is probably better than closing mailing lists altogether (like 
>  GNOME did: 
>  https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/27/the_gnome_project_is_closing/).
>  
>  Not that we've been using ros-dev much lately. But it's still the 
>  primary spot to reach out to all developers. And I assume even more 
>  people are relying on ros-bugs and ros-diffs for their work. Please 
>  speak up if you're still using them.
>  
>  
>  Other services won't be affected by this migration. In particular, all 
>  means of communication through Mattermost and the website/forums will 
>  stay live.
>  
>  
>  Best regards,
>  
>  Colin Finck
>  
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