Open Stack

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:28 PM, James E. Blair <corvus at inaugust.com> wrote:
> Duncan McGreggor <duncan at dreamhost.com> writes:
>
>> I want to wait on creating openstack-dev until we've got Exim setup
>> properly. Someone else will need to do that. I'm not sure if the
>> mailman Ubuntu package updates Exim properly, and I wouldn't know
>> where to look to check :-/
>
> Take a look at this:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/7319/

It's merged now! Thanks, guys :-)

> Once it's merged, you (or anyone else) can make changes to the mailman
> config by proposing patches to that repo.

Nice. I'm asking you about this on IRC right now :-)

> The Exim config will automatically handle new lists (no aliases or any
> config changes need to happen after running the newlist command).
>
> That change enables VERP, but has Exim generate the VERP addresses for
> efficiency.
>
>> We need to talk about migrating data:
>>  * from the old host to the new one
>>  * from LP archives (don't know if that's possible)
>
> Do you have access to the old host?
>
> I believe Stef knows who to ask to get archives from LP.
>
>> We need to figure out DNS, and see what we can do about testing the
>> lists/Exim with just the IP address/temp CNAME/etc ...
>
> Let me know if you want a temporary alternate A/CNAME record.  You'll
> notice the exim/mailman config has that as a parameter, so it'll be easy
> for us to change it back.

Yeah, let's to a temporary CNAME (actually, maybe A is better?
lists.openstack.org points elsewhere...).

How about stagelists.openstack.org?

> We will be able to set the reverse dns for the IP correctly.
>
> And when it comes time for the move, we can set the ttl to 300 and make
> the change for the A record.

Nice! Thanks, Jim!

d

> -Jim