[cairo] Server RAID failure and cairo mailing list archives

[Jakub Piotr Cłapa]

Carl Worth wrote:
> The machine that hosts cairographics.org recently suffered some disk
> failure[*].
> 
> I had a pre-failure, rsync-based copy of the cairo CVS repository
> which I compared against a post-failure version. The differences that
> I saw all seem to correlate with recent commits, so I believe the CVS
> repository is unaffected by the failure.
> 
> The mailing list archives were definitely affected. As of this
> morning, several of the index pages from the last few months were
> filled with garbage. I ran the command to rebuild the archives from
> the giant mbox file that mailman maintains. After the rebuild, the
> archive indexes look much better. They're not quite perfect, as can be
> seen by the few "No subject" messages with partial contents at the end
> of this page:
> 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2005-August/thread.html
> 
> I personally don't plan to put much more effort into repairing things
> further. But if anyone wants to look at the .mbox files and find the
> corrupted messages, we could replace them with known-good messages
> from private copies. I can provide known-good messages from my private
> copy, and I can also supply the giant .mbox file that mailman uses if
> the per-month mbox files it provides on the web page are insufficient
> for tracking down the problems.

Maybe just send people to: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.cairo
I think GMane has a much better interface for browsing and reading 
archives than mailman. (they also should have the whole uncorrupted 
archive but you would have to ask yourself (as the list owner))

-- 
Regards,
Jakub Piotr Cłapa