[Discuss] DMARC issue, Yahoo and beyond

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

I'm not sure what's slowing things down; it's been dragging out far longer
than I would have expected.


On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) <blu at nedharvey.com>
wrote:

> > From: jabr at gapps.blu.org [mailto:jabr at gapps.blu.org] On Behalf Of John
> > Abreau
> >
> > There's no downside? I think you're assuming too much.
> >
> > Jerry emailed me this morning to tell me that he can't upgrade Mailman
> > without first upgrading its dependencies, including python, and those
> > upgrades would likely break the OS, as it's gotten fairly old.
>
> Actually, thank you for this response.  Because it shows that there is
> intent to straighten it out, but due to technical limitations, it's
> difficult.
>
> Given the nature of people on this list, perhaps somebody has pointers
> that will make the upgrade process easier, or, as you said, new VM's are
> being provisioned and that will also make the problem easy once they're
> available.
>
> The question in my mind is:  What's the holdup to provision VM's?  I
> normally envision a 2 minute login session with digital ocean or whatever.
>



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