Mailman 3 March 2012 - Mailman-Developers

Thanks for sprinting at Pycon 2012!
by Barry Warsaw March 16, 2012

March 16, 2012

I'll be blogging in more detail about the Pycon 2012 Mailman sprint once I've recovered from my sleep deprived jetlagged fog, but I just wanted to send a quick note of thanks to all the folks who attended: Andrea Crotti Florian Fuchs Toshio Kuratomi Daniel Mizyrycki Terri Oda Mark Sapiro Stephen Turnbull We made some *incredible* progress on the Mailman 3 core and web-ui. I saw demos of the latter that look fantastic. It was a pleasure to hang out and hack with you guys for a few days. Thanks also to Máirín Duffy who joined us on mumble to share with us 16 of her 32 very cool brainstorms on Mailman's web ui. Special thanks to Larry Hastings for helping us find some nice eats, even if I was an anti-social stick-in-the-mud after the Greek and Thai places. That's what Tamari sauce will do to you. :) Alpha releases of the web ui and a beta of the core will be coming next week once we're all recovered. Stay tuned. Cheers, -Barry P.S. I may even have a few pictures to post later too.

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mailman UI
by Andrea Crotti March 14, 2012

March 14, 2012

Look what I found reading the news, someone wants to make a social network out of Mailman ;) http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2012/03/13/mailman-brainstorm/

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courier-to-mailman.py
by Lindsay Haisley March 13, 2012

March 13, 2012

I just got an email from a fellow in Germany wanting to know where he could find courier-to-mailman.py, a script I contributed to mailman some time ago and which is included in the distribution, but apparently not parsed for replacement tokens and installed in the contrib directory at install time. It might be a good idea to patch configure.in with the proper line to take care of this: --- configure.in.old 2012-03-12 13:41:57.512455181 -0500 +++ configure.in 2012-03-12 13:42:21.252451587 -0500 @@ -681,6 +681,7 @@ bin/rb-archfix \ contrib/check_perms_grsecurity.py \ contrib/qmail-to-mailman.py \ +contrib/courier-to-mailman.py \ contrib/rotatelogs.py \ cron/bumpdigests \ cron/checkdbs \ ... and run autoconf so that the distributed configure file reflects this change. You have the equivalent script for qmail properly generated, but not the courier script. Qmail is pretty much obsolete these days, while courier is under active development and is widely used, notably outside the US. I've been using the courier-to-mailman.py script for the better part of 10 years. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works if you let it" FMP Computer Services | 512-259-1190 | --- The Roadie http://www.fmp.com |

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Pycon 2012 sprint start time
by Barry Warsaw March 12, 2012

March 12, 2012

Pycon 2012 sprinters, I will probably be in the sprint room by 9:30am tomorrow, but we won't officially start until 10am. Looking forward to seeing everyone there! -Barry

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gsoc-2012
by abdul rauf March 11, 2012

March 11, 2012

Hi, I was going through ideas page of mailman for GSoC 2012. I would like to work with mailman. If there are more ideas i would like to see it. Currently i am 3rd year of under-graduation at K.B.N.C.E Gulbarga.

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fixing the bug 837700( https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/837700 )
by Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi March 8, 2012

March 8, 2012

Barry, In the bug 837700, I have implemented the suggestions you have made in the comment in launchpad. I am unable to test the bug in the first place. Is there a way in which I can reproduce the bug. Since there are only three legitimate users who are are hard coded in the Rest API, how can I give them preferred addresses. Regards, Jagan

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Pycon 2012 and Mailman 3 plans
by Barry Warsaw March 6, 2012

March 6, 2012

With Pycon 2012 coming up in the next few days, and most of the core Mailman developers attending the sprints[1], we have a opportunity to reach some important milestones with Mailman 3. You are of course invited to join us. Please sign up on the project page below so we can make the appropriate plans. Don't forget to come to my talk on Saturday at 4:55pm local time[2]. We'll have two main goals for the sprint, and possibly a third: - Do a face-to-face integration of the web ui for MM3, identifying any concerns or missing functionality in the API, reviewing the ui design, fix related bugs, etc. - Solidify the core engine so that I can release beta 1. - Possibly, make progress on the next-gen archiver. Yes, you read that right. At long last, I believe the core engine is solid enough to move into beta. This means we'll freeze the database schema and use the migration mechanism for any future updates, and we'll also feature freeze so we can concentrate on bug fixing[3]. So beta 1 is planned for during or just after the sprints. Finally, I have put up a test server, which you are invited to join and use. Right now, you only have access to the email command interface, meaning you must join and leave the mailing list via email commands and confirmations. Once joined, you can of course post to the list. Note that this list is running on a virtual machine, so it, the domain, or the Mailman service can disappear at any time. Occasionally, I'll stop the system, run it in debug mode (meaning your posts will not go to the list), update the software, etc. If something looks weird, please try again, or email me, or file a bug on Launchpad[4]. Please include the original email or at least the Message-Id of the message you sent that caused the problem. I will be watching the logs when I can. Be good citizens and reasonable users. Abuse will not be tolerated and will get you banned at the MTA. - Subscribe by sending a message to playground-join(a)groon.org - Unsubscribe by sending a message to playground-leave(a)groon.org - Get help by sending a message to playground-request(a)groon.org with the word 'help' (sans quotes) in the Subject - Post to the list at playground(a)groon.org Enjoy, and I hope to see you at Pycon. Cheers, -Barry [1] https://us.pycon.org/2012/community/sprints/projects/ [2] I guess I should write it, eh? <wink> https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/ [3] Of course, I get to decide what's a bug and what's a missing feature :) [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+filebug Please tag the bug with 'mailman3'

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