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mailman planned maintenance/downtime scheduled - 2015-08-18 17:00–18:00 UTC
by Rob Halsell 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

This notice has been emailed to the list owners mailing list and operations list, as well as posted on tasks T108099 & T107445. I've scheduled a mailman downtime window for planned maintainance on Tuesday, August 18th, 17:00–18:00 UTC. During this time, I'll be working the mailman side of the two tasks. Both are involving list renames. The deployments page on wikitech has been updated with this information: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments I do not expect this work to take the entire window. However, during this time, mailing list traffic will fail to receive/send. Once mailman is restarted, it will process mailing list messages. That means that mailing list delivery may be sporadic, or not at all, during this window. Any messages sent during this time will process either during or directly after the end of the maintenance. -- Rob Halsell Operations Engineer Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. E-Mail: rhalsell(a)wikimedia.org Key fingerprint = CB1F C7E7 0FF8 5DB2 6820 9C7E 75ED 14C7 *0245 D22A*Office: 415.839.6885 x6620 Fax: 415.882.0495

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Mailing list maintenance window - 2015-06-02 17:00 UTC to 19:00 UTC
by Rob Halsell 28 May '15

28 May '15

Mailing list maintenance window - 2015-06-02 17:00 UTC to 19:00 UTC I'll be taking the mailing list server offline for a (hopefully) short window. At the time of this announcement, this will be simply to process a single request. There is a good chance another request or two will be appended to this one before the actual window arrives. The downtime will start on 2015-06-02 @ 17:00 UTC and end at 19:00 UTC. Current Tasks: T100707 - Rename pywikipedia-l to pywikibot https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100707 Some may recall the last mailman maintenance window wasn't without incident: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150519-Mailman This has been taken into account, and further testing of changes and mailman both before and after maintenance have been expanded. During this time, all mailing list traffic, as well as online archives, may become unavailable. Once the window has ended, all mail routing should resume normally, and any messages sent during the window will then be delivered accordingly. All associated tasks and changes are linked from https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100711. This mail has (initially) been send to the lists administrators list and wikitech-l. Please feel free to forward to any other lists or parties that would need to know about this maintenance window. -- Rob Halsell Operations Engineer Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. E-Mail: rhalsell(a)wikimedia.org Office: 415.839.6885 x6620 Fax: 415.882.0495

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Change in subscription rules and use
by John Lewis 14 May '15

14 May '15

Hi everyone, The recent use of this list by Rob fired up a discussion I had before and brought up with him. Currently all emails to this list go to what used to be all list-owner address but now has likely gone to 90% which decreases this lists effectiveness. As such, I am changing the subscription pattern to this list. After this message goes out, I will be unsubscribing all -owner address, approving the current 'personal' email requests and switching subscription to open. Further more, future list creations will have a new step where list administrators will be added to this list with the option to unsubscribe at their discretion. I highly recommend all list administrators subscribe to this list if you are not currently (check just in case) as maintenance windows and new features (or policies) will be announced to this list. Thank you, John Lewis

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Mailing list maintenance window - 2015-05-19 17:00 UTC to 19:00 UTC (10:00 to 12:00 PDT)
by Rob Halsell 14 May '15

14 May '15

Please note that we will be working on a few open tasks for mailing list server maintenance, next Tuesday, May 19th from 17:00 to 19:00 UTC. During this time, all mailing list traffic, as well as online archives, may become unavailable. Once the window has ended, all mail routing should resume normally, and any messages sent during the window will then be delivered accordingly. All associated tasks and changes are linked from https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99098. This mail has (initially) been send to all list administrators, and wikitech-l. Please feel free to forward to any other lists or parties that would need to know about this maintenance window. -- Rob Halsell Operations Engineer Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. E-Mail: rhalsell(a)wikimedia.org Office: 415.839.6885 x6620 Fax: 415.882.0495

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New Default Theme for Mailman listinfo pages
by John Lewis 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

Hi everyone, You're receiving this email as you are a list administrator or moderator of a Wikimedia Mailman mailing list (lists.wikimedia.org). Today a new change was deployed to Mailman which changes the default theme for listinfo pages from current bland box-based one to a more user-friendly and Wikimedia-designed theme which has been used by a few lists over the past few months. For those who want to see the patch for this change, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/154964/. You can see an example of this new theme at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/test. This change has taken effect on all lists which are using the default theme. This will *not* affect any lists which are using custom list info pages, including lists which were already using the new theme before it became the default. If upon receiving this email the design of the list info page that you manage has not changed, you can change the theme to the new one through the Mailman web interface. Please copy and paste the HTML at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/List_info/en?action=edit (removing the first line of <languages />) into your lists' listinfo.html. You can access this by going to the list administration interface and clicking the 'Edit the public HTML files and text pages' and then clicking 'listinfo.html'. For ease of access, you can go to < https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/edithtml/your-list/listinfo.html> replacing "your-list" with the name of the list you manage. This is a small change for list administrators but a big change towards making Mailman more user friendly for the Wikimedia community. We are working on implementing a few more changes to Mailman (such as making fighting spam/preventing it even easier) which we hope will benefit the community using lists and the community managing them. If you have any suggestions for Mailman, please file a bug at Bugzilla under the 'Mailing lists' component which can be found under the 'Wikimedia' product. Quick link: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia&component=Ma… If you have any questions or feedback, please reply to this email or email listadmins-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org directly and Thehelpfulone ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone) or myself ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:John_F._Lewis) will respond. Thanks, John Lewis

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