[Hamara-devel] Any update to getting mailman 3.0 for hamara ?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

[avoiding cross-post to non-development list]

Quoting shirish (2015-10-28 16:32:27)
> On 10/28/2015 07:55 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Quoting shirish (2015-10-28 15:02:32)
>>> There is a reason I ask about this because I do not know what the 
>>> fate of the forum is/would be . As shared before, Mailman 3.0 and 
>>> later versions, you could make it look like it's a forum and people 
>>> would be able to send mails too, so depending on which interface you 
>>> like or not, information is delivered between all participants.
>>>
>>> The other way is to use phpBB for forum and IIRC some people do not 
>>> like PHP so much. There is stirrings of some good news there but not 
>>> raising as it could turn out to be false hopes as well.
>>
>> I am one of those strongly against PHP as a core principle for all my 
>> sysadmin work.
>
> That would tie in with some people who also feel the same way at 
> hamara.
>
>> That said, if you should choose to run a PHP-based forum, you might 
>> consider bridging not to mail but to nntp, using Debian package 
>> papercut (but beware it is dead upstream!).
>>
>
> Umm.... that is and would be a dead-end for us.
> 
> If we were to go with nntp we do have plenty of options.

There are plenty of options for an nntp _server_ but I believe papercut 
is the only (Debian!) option for an nntp _gateway_ to a forum.


> Before starting though, an interesting bit of discussion that I was 
> able to see archives of -
>
> http://grokbase.com/t/python/mailman-users/09cpvwzdha/nntp-server-for-local-newsgroups
>
> grokbase is providing a similar to what gmane provides.

grokbase and gmane are both cloud services, and (at least gmane) offers 
an nntp gateway to _mail_ not forum.



> for nntp these are the following ones which we could use -

[huge noisy list of irrelevant nntp _server_ details snipped]


 - Jonas

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