[MPlayer-dev-eng] Draft for server move announcement

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 4/16/11, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> below is the first draft for the text I'd like to send to all
> mphq mailing lists somewhen today.
> Please comment.
> I'm also looking for a volunteer to translate to hungarian for
> the MPlayer-felhasznalok list.
>
>
> Hello everyone,
> mplayerhq is moving to a different server and this mailing list is affected.

How about something like
"The hardware of mplayerhq is going to be relocated.
To avoid huge down times services may be temporally moved to another server.
This mailling list is affected".

I do hope we will be able to recover natsuki in operational condition.


> This will happen on monday, in parts possibly earlier.
> We intend of course to make this move completely seamless but it'll
> probably a bit more messy than that.
> Therefore we wanted to tell you about it, what the current status is,
> what might go wrong and you can do if this is an issue for you.
> The rest is a bit technical, if you do not understand anything just
> ignore it :-).
> If there's some service you depend on that is not mentioned consider
> asking us.
>
> 1) DNS: we switched to DNS on the new server, but the change hasn't
>    propagated yet. The server will be the same as the ffmpeg.org one,
>    so if necessary you can e.g. manually add a line like
>    192.190.173.45  www1.mplayerhq.hu www.mplayerhq.hu mplayerhq.hu
> svn.mplayerhq.hu mplayerhq.eu
>    to /etc/hosts.
>    IRC on freenode.net, #mplayer should work as emergency communication
>    channel.
> 2) Homepage: The mplayerhq.hu homepage is already up and running
>    on the server, some download links are not working currently though
> 3) Mailing lists: basic setup done, data like archives and subscriber list
>    still missing.
>    In the worst case you would have to subscribe again - we do _not_ expect
> that
>    to happen.
> 4) Repositories: We have full backups of the repositories up and running
>    (minus latest commits) but some details like who has write access and
> commit
>    hooks are missing. It might be better not to use them for a few days.
> 5) FTP: All data is backed-up (in several places) but not all will be
>    available from the start.
>    In particular upload/incoming and samples will be missing for some time
>    due to high disk-space requirements of these.
>
> Kind regards,
> Reimar Döffinger
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