[Savannah-cvs] [576] move section on renaming lists from RenamingProjectGroup to ListServer

[ineiev]

Revision: 576
          
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=administration&revision=576
Author:   ineiev
Date:     2023-02-13 03:04:43 -0500 (Mon, 13 Feb 2023)
Log Message:
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move section on renaming lists from RenamingProjectGroup to ListServer

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/sviki/ListServer.mdwn
    trunk/sviki/RenamingProjectGroup.mdwn

Modified: trunk/sviki/ListServer.mdwn
===================================================================
--- trunk/sviki/ListServer.mdwn 2023-02-09 12:24:12 UTC (rev 575)
+++ trunk/sviki/ListServer.mdwn 2023-02-13 08:04:43 UTC (rev 576)
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 * [[MailingListsInternals]] - the interface between Savannah PHP
   frontend and Mailman.
 
-
 General
 -------
 Some Mailman admin tasks need to be performed on the actual machine
@@ -43,17 +42,17 @@
 
 List creation
 -------------
-Project admins can create their own mailing lists through the normal web
+Group admins can create their own mailing lists through the normal web
 interface.  (This results in an ssh connection to `lists.gnu.org`
 and `newlist` being run there; see the [[MailSystem]] page.)
 
 For lists whose names do not follow an allowed pattern, Savannah hackers
 must manually run `~/mycreate_list.pl` on lists, and then attach the
-list to the given project using `~/bin/ml.pl` on root@mgt0:
+list to the given group using `~/bin/ml.pl` on root@mgt0:
 
-    ~/bin/ml.pl -a yourlogin -g project -l listname
+    ~/bin/ml.pl -a yourlogin -g group -l listname
     # check if there's no error
-    ~/bin/ml.pl -a yourlogin -g project -l listname | mysql savane
+    ~/bin/ml.pl -a yourlogin -g group -l listname | mysql savane
 
 Simple aliases, as opposed to mailman lists, can be created in
 fp.gnu.org:/com/mailer/aliases.
@@ -122,8 +121,40 @@
 
 Renaming a mailing list
 -----------------------
-See [[RenamingProjectGroup]].
+<http://list.org/faq.html> ("Q. How do I
+rename a list?") - apparently it's pretty messy to cleanly rename a list.
+Beware that by renaming a list, you change the archives URLs, and hence
+break lots of links. Stable archive links is something people often care
+about.
 
+Commands:
+
+    if [ -e /var/mailman/lists/$new ]; then exit 1; fi
+    # list@lists.gnu.org
+    mv /var/mailman/lists/$old /var/mailman/lists/$new
+    mv /var/mailman/archives/private/$old /var/mailman/archives/private/$new
+    mv /var/mailman/archives/private/$old.mbox 
/var/mailman/archives/private/$new.mbox
+    if [ -h /var/mailman/archives/public/$old ]; then
+      rm -f /var/mailman/archives/public/$old
+      ln -sf /var/mailman/archives/private/$new 
/var/mailman/archives/public/$new
+    fi
+    for i in /var/mailman/data/heldmsg-$old-*; do
+      if echo $i | grep 'heldmsg-'$old'-\([0-9]\+\).pck$' > /dev/null; then
+        mv $i `echo $i | sed 
's,heldmsg-'$old'-\([0-9]\+\).pck$,heldmsg-'$new'-\1.pck,'`
+      fi
+    done
+    ssh -l mharc lists.gnu.org
+
+    # mharc@lists.gnu.org
+    mv mbox/$old mbox/$new
+    mv html/$old html/$new
+
+-   rename in Savannah database if attached to a Savannah group (using
+    internal0.savannah.gnu.org for this is preferred):
+
+> UPDATE savane.mail\_group\_list SET list\_name='NEW' WHERE
+> list\_name='OLD';
+
 Message deletion from archives
 ------------------------------
 Sometimes people ask to remove a message from the archives, because they

Modified: trunk/sviki/RenamingProjectGroup.mdwn
===================================================================
--- trunk/sviki/RenamingProjectGroup.mdwn       2023-02-09 12:24:12 UTC (rev 
575)
+++ trunk/sviki/RenamingProjectGroup.mdwn       2023-02-13 08:04:43 UTC (rev 
576)
@@ -30,40 +30,8 @@
 Mailing lists
 -------------
 
-<http://list.org/faq.html> ("Q. How do I
-rename a list?") - apparently it's pretty messy to cleanly rename a list.
-Beware that by renaming a list, you change the archives URLs, and hence
-break lots of links. Stable archive links is something people often care
-about.
+See the section "Renaming a mailing list" in [[ListServer]].
 
-Commands:
-
-    if [ -e /var/mailman/lists/$new ]; then exit 1; fi
-    # list@lists.gnu.org
-    mv /var/mailman/lists/$old /var/mailman/lists/$new
-    mv /var/mailman/archives/private/$old /var/mailman/archives/private/$new
-    mv /var/mailman/archives/private/$old.mbox 
/var/mailman/archives/private/$new.mbox
-    if [ -h /var/mailman/archives/public/$old ]; then
-      rm -f /var/mailman/archives/public/$old
-      ln -sf /var/mailman/archives/private/$new 
/var/mailman/archives/public/$new
-    fi
-    for i in /var/mailman/data/heldmsg-$old-*; do
-      if echo $i | grep 'heldmsg-'$old'-\([0-9]\+\).pck$' > /dev/null; then
-        mv $i `echo $i | sed 
's,heldmsg-'$old'-\([0-9]\+\).pck$,heldmsg-'$new'-\1.pck,'`
-      fi
-    done
-    ssh -l mharc lists.gnu.org
-
-    # mharc@lists.gnu.org
-    mv mbox/$old mbox/$new
-    mv html/$old html/$new
-
--   rename in Savannah database if attached to a Savannah group (using
-    internal0.savannah.gnu.org for this is preferred):
-
-> UPDATE savane.mail\_group\_list SET list\_name='NEW' WHERE
-> list\_name='OLD';
-
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