[Mailman-Developers] Important Mailman 2.1.9 to 2.1.10 upgrade note.

[Mark Sapiro]

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Barry Warsaw wrote:
| On Apr 22, 2008, at 2:44 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
|
|> Bob Puff at NLE wrote:
|
|>> +1 on the auto-delete.
[...]
|
|>> David Lee wrote:
|>>>
|>>> If this is deemed "Important" (for anyone upgrading over the next
|>>> year or
|>>> more), and if this cleaning process is well-defined and capable of
|>>> mechanisation, then might it be worth superseding 2.1.10 with a
|>>> "2.1.10a"
|>>> (or 2.1.11 or whatever nomeclature is appropriate) that
|>>> automatically does
|>>> this cleaning?
|
|
|> I think this is a good idea. If I had remembered about the unparseable
|> .bak files, and thought it through, I could have added code to
|> bin/update to remove them, and I still can for a fix-up release.
|
|> Also, In another thread, Barry asked for feedback on "some kind of
|> shunt queue culler cron script". I think this is a good idea, either
|> for a separate cron, or incorporated into one of the existing crons.
|
|> How about something like a couple of Default config settings like
|
|> BAD_SHUNT_ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY = None
|> BAD_SHUNT_STALE_AFTER = days(7)
|
|> With the idea being anything in the 'bad' or 'shunt' queues older than
|> BAD_SHUNT_STALE_AFTER would be discarded or moved to
|> BAD_SHUNT_ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY if it existed.
|
|> Do people like this idea?
|
| +1, but I think it should be a separate cron script.  Keep 'em small and
| simple!


I have implemented a cull_bad_shunt cron and a small change to
bin/update to remove any .bak files from qfiles/ on an upgrade.

These changes are revisions 1074 and 1075 in the branch at
<https://code.launchpad.net/~msapiro/mailman/cull_bad_shunt>.

Revision 1071 is the 2.1.10 release. Revisions 1072 and 1073 have been
committed to the 2.1 branch and a patch for these changes is on the
sourceforge and GNU download sites.

I would appreciate feedback on the 1074 and 1075 revisions from those
interested.

- --
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan

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