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

[shirish]

addition at bottom :-

On 04/29/2015 12:35 AM, shirish wrote:
> at bottom :-
>
> 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

The documentation for mailman 3 is at 
http://gnu-mailman.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

I wish there was a .pdf for off-line usage to have a brief look through 
the whole thing.

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