Re: svn.haxx.se is going away

Den fre 27 nov. 2020 kl 19:26 skrev Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>:

> Greg Stein wrote on Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 00:08:32 -0600:
> > You can preserve all the data you want into your homedir, and we can
> > sort from there.
>
> Sounds good. Nathan, Daniel Sahlberg — could you work with Infra on
> getting the data over to ASF hardware?
>

I can help, but I have no reputation in the project.

> You indicate a desire to maintain URLs. Do you have some ideas on that?
>

> Each individual message .shtml file contains the message-id in
> a comment. We can extract the comments and build a redirector around
> them. (By the way, this is basically the same exercise that Infra must
> have solved back when Sebb received that CSV file from the lists.a.o
> vendor, so there may be an opportunity for code reuse.) Of course, the
> full rsync likely has the same info available less scrapily.
>
> Or, as mentioned above, the .shtml files could just be preserved
> statically (plus or minus an appropriate message in the list of years on
> the /${listname}/ page). In fact, I'm having trouble coming up with
> a reason _not_ to serve a static snapshot of the pages, even if we do
> build a redirector.
>

I think it's best to start with a plain copy of the existing site, then we
can also pay homage to Daniel Stenberg's efforts for the 20 years.

Kind regards,
daniel
Received on 2020-11-27 19:49:05 CET