[Twisted-Python] in case there's downtime

Chris Norman chris.norman2 at googlemail.com
Sat Mar 25 14:21:40 MDT 2017


Hi,

What needs taking over on the mailing list side? I'd love to help out if 
possible.


Cheers,


On 25/03/2017 04:14, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
> We've been very conservative about upgrading our operating system on 
> twistedmatrix.com <http://twistedmatrix.com>, since we don't want to 
> disrupt anything.  Since our OS is one release too old to support 
> Docker, that unfortunately means we haven't been able to migrate 
> incrementally to containers, which creates a bit of a chicken-and-egg 
> problem.
>
> However, as we are days away from the end-of-life cliff for the 
> operating system as a whole, and as I discovered a few minutes ago, 
> dozens of packages are already unsupported and not receiving security 
> updates, I'm going to upgrade the host OS manually, even if it results 
> in some disruption.  As with the Twisted compatibility policy, 
> security is a good enough reason to break stuff.
>
> Maybe we'll even get a new version of Mailman that will let me turn 
> automatic subscriptions back on while the star-crossed 
> https://lists.twistedmatrix.com project waits for someone else to help 
> out :-).
>
> -glyph
>
>
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