Hi,
I was told yesterday that the mailman/pipermail archives were broken,
in that permalinks were no longer linking to the messages they used to
link to (therefore not being "permalinks" at all).
I know this happened at least once in the past, when the archives were
rebuilt. Retroactively fixing permalinks on-wiki and elsewhere is a
nightmare (particularly for old messages used to source early
Wikimedia history), and we're still finding tons of obsolete links
today. I'm hoping that whatever caused the permalinks to be changed
again can be swiftly reverted, so that we don't end up with another
huge pile of obsolete links.
Does anyone have any more information about what happened this time,
and if there's any chance links will be returned to their previous
state? I haven't been able to find a thread or recent bug about this
issue.
Thanks,
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Guillaume Paumier