Mailman 3 - Mailman-announce

Temporary wiki.list.org outage
by Barry Warsaw 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

Hi folks, wiki.list.org may experience some short-term outages as the fine folks at Contegix attempt to upgrade our instance. They originally tried to do it over the weekend, but had some troubles and now want to attempt it again during weekday hours. Thanks, -Barry

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New Logo Contest for 2010
by Barry Warsaw 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hello everybody! Our current GNU Mailman logos were designed by the Dragon De Monsyne many years ago. They have served us exceedingly well, but with the coming of Mailman 3, we've decided it's time our logos got a face lift. So we're opening up a new logo contest to the Mailman and GNU communities. We invite your creative and inspiring designs! Details of the contest and submission guidelines are available here: http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/NewLogo Submissions will be open until February 28, 2010, and is open to everyone, so feel free to forward this announcement. Please contact the Mailman Steering Committee at mailman-cabal(a)python.org with any questions. Enjoy, -Barry

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Mailman web user interface kick-off
by Barry Warsaw 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

Hello folks, I'd like to officially kickoff the Mailman 3 web user interface project. I want to invite all interested developers and designers to join in on helping to produce an awesome, modern user interface for the next version of Mailman. I believe we have enough infrastructure in the core Mailman 3 engine to support at least initial work on the WUI. The architecture we've laid out is solid I believe. The Mailman 3 engine provides a REST HTTP server exposing a full-access administrative interface. The WUI will be a separate optional process that sites can run, which communicates over REST to manage security and provide external HTTP/HTML access to Mailman functionality for users, list administrators, and site administrators. All discussions about the WUI can be conducted on the mailman-developers mailing list. The wiki can be used to collect artifacts such as design notes, decisions, and progress: http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Web+Interface (Contact me or mailman-cabal(a)python.org off-line if you need write access. The wiki is fairly locked down due to spam.) The Launchpad project for the Mailman WUI is here: https://launchpad.net/mailmanweb but there is currently very little there at the moment. Remember too that we are trying to gather critical mass to sprint on the WUI at Pycon 2010: http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/PyCon+Sprint+2010 Enjoy, -Barry

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RELEASED GNU Mailman 3.0 alpha 5 (Distant Early Warning)
by Barry Warsaw 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hello everyone, welcome to 2010 and another Mailman 3 alpha release. I'm happy to announce Mailman 3.0 alpha 5. New in this release are additional REST API methods for subscribing and unsubscribing email addresses to mailing lists, and for listing all members of all mailing lists. Mailman also properly handles the -join, -leave, and -confirm email commands and sub-addresses (-subscribe and -unsubscribe are aliases for -join and -leave). A few more command line scripts have been renamed, a 'devmode' setting has been added, and Mailman now searches for its configuration file using this search order: -C config command line argument $MAILMAN_CONFIG_FILE environment variable ./mailman.cfg ~/.mailman.cfg /etc/mailman.cfg As always, you can download the tarball from the Cheeseshop or Launchpad: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman https://launchpad.net/mailman Documentation is available here: http://packages.python.org/mailman Enjoy, -Barry

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Mailman 2.1.13 released
by Mark Sapiro 22 Dec '09

22 Dec '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am happy to announce the final release of Mailman 2.1.13. Mailman 2.1.13 is a bug fix release and contains a new localization for the Asturian language. Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.5.or 2.6 is recommended. See the changelog at <https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/2.1.13> for more details. Mailman is free software for managing email mailing lists and e-newsletters. Mailman is used for all the python.org and SourceForge.net mailing lists, as well as at hundreds of other sites. For more information, please see: http://www.list.org http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman Mailman 2.1.13 can be downloaded from https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/ - -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAksxF7oACgkQVVuXXpU7hpMBmwCgvJT3lqRcAJcAV+7PwvBcx1Hs pDUAoI9iJiKjB+8gVSJeVkoz+TKmrBN2 =FE2n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Mailman 2.1.13rc1 released
by Mark Sapiro 14 Dec '09

14 Dec '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am happy to announce the first release candidate of Mailman 2.1.13. Mailman 2.1.13 is a bug fix release and contains a new localization for the Asturian language. Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.5.or 2.6 is recommended. See the changelog at <https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/2.1.13rc1> for more details. Mailman is free software for managing email mailing lists and e-newsletters. Mailman is used for all the python.org and SourceForge.net mailing lists, as well as at hundreds of other sites. For more information, please see: http://www.list.org http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman Mailman 2.1.13 can be downloaded from https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/ Note to translators: The mailman.pot is up to date in this release and has been merged with the individual message catalogs. If possible, please review your translations and submit any changes before December 21 if you want to get them in the 2.1.13 final release. - -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAksmk3EACgkQVVuXXpU7hpMFvQCdFQV4sgxkVEDuUNlgiNALXe6/ 3jYAnAn/5+SQSPby3c3eG7MJhC187cA6 =Pby4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Mailman 3.0 alpha 4
by Barry Warsaw 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

I'm happy to announce the release of Mailman 3.0 alpha 4. Things are getting quite real now. It's pretty easy to hook Mailman up to Postfix for both incoming and outgoing mail[1] and you can create mailing lists and populate them with addresses. Currently, you must do this through the command line though. Please download the latest tarball or grab the bzr branch, and put it through some paces. Now is a good time to comment on the design and feature set for Mailman 3 as we are still in alpha. I'm still planning on releasing a first beta by the end of the year -- your testing, feedback, input, and contributions can help with that! You can download the tarball either from the Cheeseshop, or Launchpad: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman/3.0.0a4 https://launchpad.net/mailman Please note: Mailman 3.0a4 is not production ready yet. Enjoy, -Barry

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RELEASED GNU Mailman 3.0 alpha 3 (Working Man)
by Barry Warsaw 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

I am happy to announce the release of the third alpha version of Mailman 3, code named "Working Man". This is primarily a preview release so that developers and other interested people can download the code and participate in Mailman 3's further development. I believe we are on track for a final release by the end of the year, and your contributions of code, feedback, documentation, etc. will be welcome and appreciated! Please note that this is an alpha release and as such is not ready for production use. You can get the code from the Cheeseshop: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman/3.0.0a3 Mailman 3 is buildout based and requires Python 2.6. To build it, run this after unpacking the tarball and cd'ing into it % python bootstrap.py % bin/buildout From there you can run the tests % bin/test and build the documentation % bin/docs Highlights in this release include the start of a REST admin server for integrating Mailman with external web sites, a combined bin/ mailman uber-command, configuration now done through ini-files using lazr.config, and better LMTP support. Enjoy, -Barry

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Re: [Mailman-Announce] [Mailman-Users] Wiki maintenance
by Barry Warsaw 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 2, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > Barry Warsaw wrote: > >> Please note that our hosting provider will be conducting some >> schedule maintenance on our wiki instance. Thus wiki.list.org will >> be unavailable starting at 0900 UTC Saturday April 4, for "a few >> hours". > > So says the FLUFL, so shall it be. Just wait to you see "from __future__ import barry_as_FLUFL" littered all over the Mailman code :) Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAknaShMACgkQ2YZpQepbvXED2QCghsgkh+wH4pOEt9P/YL1U35Md f/IAnj0nNimXrC5RLCe3pJaFihihtNcK =AObL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Wiki maintenance
by Barry Warsaw 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Please note that our hosting provider will be conducting some schedule maintenance on our wiki instance. Thus wiki.list.org will be unavailable starting at 0900 UTC Saturday April 4, for "a few hours". Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAknUzAgACgkQ2YZpQepbvXGKbgCfc9ZOQD4TzaZyr8sc6ygIic0G tuYAn1B2m+B+Lh6NwIkTNDOetn814Piu =7o8K -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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