I have read but not yet run the relevant code. If I understand correctly, the intention of these two booleans is to provide 3 different states: [ nothing, private, public ]. Is that correct? If so, that's easy to understand and present to a list administrator in Posterious. 1/ If it is not too late, for clarity, you may want to consider exposing just 3 states through the API rather than a pair of booleans which represent 4 states. 2/ If the Posterious user interface says "nothing" or "private" there is a user expectation of no public archiving. To help enforce this, please add X-No-Archive: Yes to outbound messages. There are a lot of public archiving services in the world and this will avoid a lot of confusion. 3/ If there is a local message store (in maildir format?) it should not have X-No-Archive: Yes added. This is relevant when a list admin changes their mind years later and wants to import their data into a public archiving service. 4/ The list admin should have some mechanism for finding out the URL of the public archive. 5/ What happens when Postorius is set to "public", Mailman is configured for mail-archive.com, and then somebody also adds archive@mail- archive.com as a subscriber to the list? Will double messages be sent to mail-archive.com? 6/ In Mailman 2, the mechanism for adding archival service for The Mail Archive is to add "archive@mail-archive.com" as a subscriber. My hope for mailman 3 is that this would become even easier. From what I see so far, it looks harder because it requires modifying mailman to a non- stock configuration. Or would the stock configuration use The Mail Archive as the public archiving service? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/967238 Title: Expose IMailingList.archive and .archive_private in the REST API To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/967238/+subscriptions

** Changed in: mailman Status: Triaged => In Progress ** Changed in: mailman Assignee: (unassigned) => Barry Warsaw (barry) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/967238 Title: Expose IMailingList.archive and .archive_private in the REST API To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/967238/+subscriptions

** Changed in: mailman Status: In Progress => Fix Committed ** Tags removed: easy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/967238 Title: Expose IMailingList.archive and .archive_private in the REST API To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/967238/+subscriptions