Re: Ready to go live with new BAPC?

[Benjamin Lehmann <benvlehmann gmail com>]

Hi Ken,

I think it's fine for us to wait for September 9th. I'll have the system 
fully ready for the switchover, and you can announce it to the list at 
that time.

Best,
Ben

> On Aug 29, 2026, at 10:31, Ken Olum <kdo cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Ben.  It's almost September.  Are we ready to go live with the new
> bapc?  The only thing I know of is that I don't think you ever
> implemented the idea that if there are no listings it should say
> something about that, rather than just having an empty message.
> 
> I think the only things to do are to change the automated system to send
> to bapc cosmos phy tufts edu and to send an announcement telling people
> what to do (and update https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html to say
> that it is live).  I checked that bapc submit gmail com is already
> listed as an authorized posting address to bapc.  I also removed some
> hacks involving bapc-late and bapc-announce.  The
> bapc cosmos phy tufts edu list is a regular mailing list now and you can
> just mail to that address. The address bapc-late cosmos phy tufts edu is
> just an alias for the same list.  Generally people should not be using
> either of these, but using the automated system to make changes and
> letting it sent out the emails.
> 
> The only issue with all this is that I'm leaving for a trip to the UK
> tomorrow morning, so if something goes wrong I might not be able to deal
> with it easily.  I'll be back at work Sept. 9.  We could wait until then
> if you think there won't be announcements before that.  Or switch over
> now.
> 
>                                        Ken
> 
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