Last modified: 2014-08-18 15:25:06 UTC
Cloning bug 61792... http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-February/date.html is no longer updating. Grahhhhhhhhh.
The database files for 2014-February were unwritable. In an effort to force mailman to generate the html files, I moved them out of the way and sent an email which however failed miserably since that did not force recreation but rather creation of those with my single email. I proceeded to restoring from backup and this time it worked. The side effect is that messages to the list from 19 to 25 February are not listed in the archives (hence the previous effort). I will investigate further if it is possible to recreate the html files for a single month.
(In reply to Alexandros Kosiaris from comment #1) > I will investigate further if it is possible to recreate the html > files for a single month. In theory it's possible, with the infamous arch script and its start/end parameters, using the numbers of the messages in the mbox file. I doubt it will come without side effects though.
Please don't run your experiments on Wikipedia-l. Create a copy under another name..... subscribe only yourself and other experimentors ---- and experiment to your hearts content. When you know how to 'fix' the archives..... consider not doing it as the archives is available in other places. This imposes zero risk!!! Thanks, Richard.
Richard, we know this is very unfortunate but i also think calling that an "experiment" is unfair given that it was originally caused by a legal request. mailman having issues with recreating archives is known even if the user does everything correct.
(In reply to Daniel Zahn from comment #4) > Richard, we know this is very unfortunate but i also think calling that an > "experiment" is unfair given that it was originally caused by a legal > request. mailman having issues with recreating archives is known even if the > user does everything correct. My request here was only in respect to the "Plz ignore again" messages on wikimedia-l which started appearing on 26 Feb. I don't think there is any reason run multiple tests on a list with about 2700 subscribers. Regards, Richard.
I'm going to say there's likely too much work involved and risk of breakage of Mailman here so closing as WONTFIX.
