Random Ramblings of a Sysadmin
We’re starting the long-overdue process of overhauling our roadmap for the Bugzilla project, and producing what will hopefully be our path to a Bugzilla 3.0. It’s in the form of a wiki page currently and we’ll be making changes to it over the next few weeks. If you have good suggestions, feel free to leave them on the discussion page (or inline if you make sure it stands out enough that we know it’s a comment).
So with that, I present you with our work-in-progress Bugzilla Roadmap.
The bulk of the news migration is complete as of late Sunday night. There’s still a few loose ends, but it’s done enough that I can take a vacation, so that’s what I’m doing this week. 🙂 You can read more about the news migration on Gerv’s blog.
Earlier tonight, we changed the news.mozilla.org domain name to point at our new news server at Giganews. (yay!)
If you go take a look, you’ll notice a bunch of new newsgroups, starting with mozilla.* instead of netscape.*. That’s not a complete list of what’s going to be there, but that’s what we’ve rolled out so far. There’s a lot of new discussion areas available. The rest of the new groups will be rolled out as we get their corresponding mail gateways moved over the next couple weeks.
Unfortunately, when we moved the domain name tonight, the message pointers on all the groups changed, and our mail to news gateway thought a whole mess of messages were new again (thus re-sending a few thousand to the mailing lists again). We caught it before it got too far, but we think the mozilla-general mailing list probably bore the brunt of what actually got through before we stopped it, and for that we apologize.
The news gateways for all of the lists have been reset. Any posts to the newsgroups in the hour between when the domain switched and when we reset it probably never got gatewayed to the mailing lists.
On Monday, January 30th, 2006, we’ll be disabling pserver access to the website CVS repository, just like we did for the source code repository a couple years ago. This means from that point onward, you will need an ssh key to be able to check into the website using a CVS client. You will still be able to use Doctor with your password (it’ll be requiring SSL [https] soon).
There are 371 active website CVS accounts as of this writing. 111 of you actually already have ssh keys (in most cases because you have commit access to the source tree as well) and may just need to start using it.
In the next week or so, we’ll be emailing instructions to everyone who currently has a website CVS account. So if your CVS account uses an old email address, now would be a good time to get it changed to a current address by filing a bug.
If you didn’t already read it elsewhere, we’re going to be changing the news.mozilla.org domain name to point at the Giganews servers in the morning (PST) on Monday, January 9th. The message pointers are different, so if you read the newsgroups via NNTP (rather than email), you may need to unsubscribe and resubscribe from each of the groups after the change is made in order to get your “last read” pointers synced up. If all of the new posts start showing up as already-read to you, this is likely what you’ve run into.
For more information, see the News Migration FAQ.