[Development] Archiving is working

[Paul Wicking]

On 1/28/19 1:26 PM, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
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>> On 28 Jan 2019, at 09:43, Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis at qt.io> wrote:
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>>> -----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.
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> +1 from me too
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> If the archive can’t be regenerated with the same numbers, aren’t there backups somewhere that can be restored?
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Another +1. Not being able to handle this properly reflects poorly on 
the Qt project, imho. There is (nor was) no need to regenerate the 
archive, that shouldn't have happened. As it stands, restoring a backup 
to a new VM and populating that with the entries since the situation 
arose (ca mid-November, if my memory serves me right) appears as a 
solution that will keep the integrity of our archives until that date, 
at the cost of possibly upsetting the integrity of the entries since 
(could probably also be avoidable but requires more effort). In other 
words, the longer we're in the current state, the worse the problem becomes.