On Mon, 20 Nov 2023, Derick Rethans wrote:
> On 20 November 2023 21:37:55 GMT, Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 15/11/2023 16:59, Derick Rethans wrote:
> >> In the last few days, I have upgrade all our Digital Ocean droplets from
> >> Debian 10 (or 9!) to 12. That also means they now run PHP 8.2.
> >
> >Thanks for getting things current! System maintenance is such an
> >essential but often underappreciated task.
> >
> >I notice news.php.net (and therefore externals.io, which feeds from
> >it) hasn't copied any message from the list since the day after you
> >posted this (last timestamp is 16 Nov 2023 22:14:19 -0000). Could
> >that be related somehow?
> >
> >Or if it's just coincidence, maybe you or someone else here knows
> >which service might need prodding to bring it back to life?
>
> Yes, this could be related. Somebody on the foundation slack raised it
> too, so I'll have a look ASAP.
I have fixed this now.
It turned out to be a bug in *bugs.php.net*, which I had fixed
yesterday:
https://github.com/php/web-bugs/commit/9ed00f752fb1f82a93ed08a13f45219e5723c0d0
Without this fix, emails sent to the bugs (and docs-bugs) mailinglists
had very long "From" addresses.
Colobus, the tool that parses the mailinglists and creates the news
interface and NNTP server, had a MySQL column defined for this to
varchar(255). Usually enough, but it was now bailing out.
The "fix" was to change that column to "text" — not pretty, but better
than hacking the mailinglist software's index.
cheers,
Derick
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