[Hamara-devel] Try mailman 3.0 and if that fulfills our e-mail to forum and vice-versa ?

[shirish]

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On 04/28/2015 12:40 AM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> On 27/04/15 17:12, shirish wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Mailman 3.0 is out .  Please see https://code.launchpad.net/mailman
>> for more info. Unlike yesteryear's monolithic single binary mailman
>> 3.0 is now split into 5 separate binaries i.e. Mailman core,
>> mailman.client, HyperKitty, Postorius and bundler  . While as can be
>> seen it will take a few days for mailman 3.0 to make its début, if we
>> have a person or two who can play with it,  will be easier for us to
>> take a decision.
>>
>> What do you guys think ?
>>
> If it gives us the functionality that the forum offers - but via a web
> interface to the mailing list - then it would make sense to drop the
> forum altogether.
>
> I guess we need to take it for a spin - unless you can find the
> functionality we need in the features list?

Dear Vikas,
As of right now, this is the way things stand. Mailman introduced 3.0b5 
as the last release. The same release can be downloaded from launchpad.

See 
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2014-December/000197.html 
- December 30, 2014 mail announcing 3.0b5

The raw documentation of mailman can be seen at 
http://pythonhosted.org/mailman/ but this will need a lot of 
consolidation and cleaning up before it is ready for public consumption.

The download is at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman/3.0.0b5 . I am 
guessing after extracting either of those tarballs there would be a call
from some python script to download all the other tools necessary needed
for a complete mailman installation.

The newest RC1 release is held back due to bug-fix held upstream see

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2015-April/024915.html 
-April 20, 2015.

I haven't found any existence of a roadmap but for most FOSS releases 
the most difficult part is the decision of what will go into a feature 
release. This is now behind them. So the only issue for them is to get 
all and any remaining bugs fixed and whatever new feature remain go into 
3.0.1.

I have just subscribed to mailman-developers mailing list, would be 
asking them few questions and hopefully will get an answer soonish.

In either way, it would be helpful if we have mailman 3 instance up and 
running. The easiest way to use it would be to mirror whatever emails 
are showing up in mailman 2.x series so that :-

a. Users are able to have a chance to interact and view the changes and 
be comfortable (or not) with the changes.

b. The list admin overtime develops a bit of expertise of the various 
files and toggles that make up Mailman 3.x series.

c. This new version of mailman is modular, which also means that there 
is a possibility of alternate modules to come up and be integrate with a 
certain Mailman instance.

I do hope our list-manager is already subscribed to mailman-announce as 
well as mailman-developers at python.org. If not subscribe and use both the 
mailing list and the IRC channel #mailman on freenode.net

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org