[Development] Archiving is working

[Shawn Rutledge]

> On 28 Jan 2019, at 09:43, Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis at qt.io> wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of
>> Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
>> Sent: Friday, 25 January 2019 7:23 PM
>> To: development at qt-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [Development] Archiving is working
>> 
>> Il 25/01/19 18:41, Edward Welbourne ha scritto:
>>> The pages have all been updated and had their URLs changed.
>>> Or are you trying to tell me something else ?
>>> I'm not sure I fully understand.
>> 
>> Yes. And that's the problem. It *MUST NOT* happen. Links to mails in the
>> mailing list are found in commit messages, on the bugtracker, and so on.
>> Breaking them is a big no-no-no.
> 
> Another +1. I don't want my commit messages to become useless because of broken mailing list archive links. I'm pretty sure I also linked to a mailing list thread when I did a bulk Qt 4 jira task cleanup, so if that link is now broken it's broken in hundreds of comments.

+1 from me too

If the archive can’t be regenerated with the same numbers, aren’t there backups somewhere that can be restored?