Update on the IT Infrastructure Transition Project

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

The next few weeks will bring the first services onto the new IT 
Infrastructure[1] and will include the migration to Mailman 3 in-place 
on the existing infrastructure.

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The Mailman 3 migration will not disrupt list traffic - all lists and 
subscriptions will carry forward. The interaction with the web interface 
for individual subscription management and list management and 
moderation will change. Using the new web interface (Postorius) will be 
intuitive. There will be a step at first login where you will have to 
prove the ability to receive mail at the address you are logging in 
with, and at that point you will establish a new password. If you would 
like to see what this looks like, consider exploring the Python and 
Mailman lists themselves at, e.g., 
https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-announce-list.python.org/.


Our mail archives will not change. The archives will remain at 
https://mailarchive.ietf.org <https://mailarchive.ietf.org>. We will not 
be using Mailman 3’s archiving interface (HyperKitty).


The author-tools.ietf.org and wiki.ietf.org webservices along with our 
Matomo-based analytics will transition first. This transition is 
expected to be uneventful (except for possibly a few minutes of downtime 
as final database transfers take place). I’ll send an update as each 
service moves.


YANG Catalog is in an intermediate state - it is not yet running on the 
long-term intended infrastructure - we are working out issues with 
initializing new instances and will finish its transition when that is 
complete.


There is more discussion captured during the recent Tools Team meeting [2].

RjS


[1] 
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tools-discuss/jrM7qJhvPQHUgX1LGbWgHBBI2qU/

[2] https://notes.ietf.org/tools-team-20240109