I actually won''t be around today as I''m still recovering from
my knee
surgery last week, but I am currently planning to be in the office
tomorrow afternoon if that works.
I think I have most of it from the email anyways and I''ll take a look
at
importing/merging maillists in mailman. Should definitely be possible.
-- Allen
Derek Cicero wrote:
> Allen,
>
> We want to add the archives from a previous mailing list to the
> opensolaris site. Take a look at this email and we''ll talk
tomorrow
> regrading how to make this happen.
>
> Thanks,
> Derek
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> Re: Rebuilding archives?
> From:
> Bryan Cantrill <bmc@zion.eng.sun.com>
> Date:
> Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:23:49 -0800 (PST)
> To:
> derek.cicero@sun.com (Derek Cicero)
>
> To:
> derek.cicero@sun.com (Derek Cicero)
> CC:
> dtrace-core@kiowa.eng.sun.com
>
>
>Derek,
>
>
>
>>>From the documentation for mailman, it appears to be possible to (by
>>
>>
>>>hand) create the mailbox and then recreate the archives using arch.
>>>If this is the case, I think we want to talk about putting the
>>>dtrace-interest archives on opensolaris.org. (I don''t
think there''s
>>>anything confidential in the archives, but I will give them a quick
>>>scrub.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>OK, let me know when you have it cleaned up and I will see what it
>>takes to get it added to the archives.
>>
>>
>
>The scrubbed version is here:
>
> /net/nome/u/gates/dtrace-gate/public/interest.scrubbed
>
>(I removed the very few e-mails that were explicitly marked to be Sun
>Proprietary/Confidential.)
>
>We will need to do another snapshot of this when we actually shutdown
>dtrace-interest@kiowa. At that time, I will hand you another file to
>be concatenated on to the archives; I assume mailman will handle the
>date sorting properly.
>
>Also, it should go without saying that this file should be concatenated
>on to the existing archives (saving a copy of the existing archives
>before attempting any surgery, obviously); we don''t want to lose
the
>existing content. Also: I think we should go through the existing
>archives and edit the "From:" line by hand. If you would rather I
do
>this, I would be happy to -- just point me to the raw mailbox file.
>
>
>
>>There is no bureaucracy! Just have the Sun employee send me an email and
>>I will add them. As long as someone expresses an interest, they will be
>>added. We''ve sent a few emails out to ''onall''
and other internal mail
>>aliases asking for new participants. External participants are pretty
>>easy to add as well, but it does require a phone screen and and the
>>signing of an NDA.
>>
>>
>
>No problem -- everyone on the list is internal to Sun.
>
> - Bryan
>
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>
>