Mailman 3 February 2016 - Mailman-Developers

Fwd: [Python-Dev] [ANNOUNCE] fuzzpy
by Terri Oda Feb. 29, 2016

Feb. 29, 2016

I know I was talking to someone a while ago about maybe doing some fuzz testing on Mailman. If anyone's interested, this might be a tool worth trying out: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Python-Dev] [ANNOUNCE] fuzzpy Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 21:44:39 -0600 From: Brian Cain <brian.cain(a)gmail.com> To: python-dev(a)python.org ################################################################## Â Â *---------------------------------------------------* Â Â * Â Â … [View More]fuzzpy: CPython fuzz tester is now available Â * Â Â * Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â * Â Â * Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Version 0.8 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â * Â Â * Â Â Â Â https://bitbucket.org/ebadf/fuzzpy/ Â Â Â Â * Â Â *---------------------------------------------------* I am pleased to announce the creation of a coverage-guided fuzz tester for CPython.Â It's a pretty small wrapper around LLVM's libFuzzer that enables some powerful testing logic.Â AFL (American Fuzzy Lop) is another popular fuzzer lately -- libFuzzer is very similar in concept to AFL.Â From what I've read on list archives, Victor Stinner had previously done some good fuzz testing on CPython using fusil.Â This project should expand on that concept. I'd love to get feedback, suggestions, patches and anything else the list can offer. Q: What is fuzzpy for? A: It's primarily for testing CPython itself, but could also be used for individual python projects too.Â Pure-python projects will be the simplest to integrate at this point.Â Also, interesting test cases output by fuzzpy may end up being useful in testing others such as pypy, pyston, etc. Q: What is a fuzz tester? A: It modifies inputs to a test case in order to find unique/rare failures. Q: What does "coverage-guided" mean? A: It means that libFuzzer is able to witness the specific code executed as a result of a given test case.Â It feeds this information back into an engine to modify the test cases to optimize for coverage. Q: How can I help? A1: donate cycles: build the project and crank away on one of the existing tests.Â Relative to other common fuzzing, it's awfully slow, so consider throwing as many cycles as you can afford to. A2: contribute tests: write a ~10-line python script that exercises a feature that you think could benefit from fuzz testing. A3: if there's interest, I can accept cryptocoin donations to purchase cycles on a cloud server. ################################################################## -- -Brian [View Less]

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Need help in installing Mailman3
by Abhilash Raj Feb. 29, 2016

Feb. 29, 2016

On 02/29/2016 12:02 AM, Saurav Kumar wrote: > I wanted to install the new packages in a virtualenv Then, just running 'python setup.py install' from the source or 'pip install <package name>' when the the virtualenv is activated should install the package inside the virtualenv. Notice that you *don't*[1] have to use sudo, using sudo will install it globally. Footnotes: 1. Here I am assuming that you( the user) own the directory where the virtualenv is. > > > On Mon, 29 … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Need help in installing Mailman3
by Abhilash Raj Feb. 29, 2016

Feb. 29, 2016

Hi Sourav, On 02/28/2016 01:42 PM, Saurav Kumar wrote: > I want to install Mailman in a custom directory, rather than using > "user > site-package" directory which is default when using install without any > extra parameter. > I'm not able to use the -d and install-dir parameter. Please guide me what > i'm doing wrong What do you mean by a custom directory? By default, setuptools is configured to install packages in a particular directory on each linux distribution (… [View More]

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[Mailman-Announce] Mailman 2.1.21 release - IMPORTANT update
by Mark Sapiro Feb. 28, 2016

Feb. 28, 2016

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Need help in installing Mailman3
by Saurav Kumar Feb. 28, 2016

Feb. 28, 2016

I want to install Mailman in a custom directory, rather than using "user site-package" directory which is default when using install without any extra parameter. I'm not able to use the -d and install-dir parameter. Please guide me what i'm doing wrong Thanks Saurav

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Gitlab integration, GSOC'16
by aahan bhatt Feb. 28, 2016

Feb. 28, 2016

Please explain about the gitlab integration in layman terms. I would like to contribute to the project.

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Hi
by Abhilash Raj Feb. 28, 2016

Feb. 28, 2016

Hi Saurav, On 02/27/2016 11:04 PM, Saurav Kumar wrote: > Hi, > I'm Saurav Kumar, sophomore at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) > Varanasi. I have deep interest in contributing to open source software > though i have no prior experience. I would love to have some one to guide > me, I'm am very comfortable using Pyhton3 and thus wish to contribute to > mailman-core. I have done a minor project on Flask and know a bit about > using Django. Welcome! Stephen very recently … [View More]

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GSoC Project: pgp plugin
by Jonas Feb. 28, 2016

Feb. 28, 2016

Hello Mailman developers, I was planning to write a pgp-encryption plugin for Mailman 3 that manages one keypair per list and pubkeys of the subscribers. I'm considering to do it as my first-time Google Summer of Code project. I have read the GSoC 2016 rules and the Mailman wiki GSoC 2016 pages. I will try to work myself more into the mailman-core sources the next few days and try to make an improvement (eg bugfix). About me: I have been studying computer science in germany for two and a … [View More]half years. I have sent patches to some libre, mainly C and C++, projects. I have only minor experience in Python but I'm used to learning by reading documentation and sources. Feel free to mail me if you have questions. The Project Idea: Encrypted malinglists have been been a much-requested feature in mailman 2 and I would like to run some encrypted mailinglists myself. There is no stable pgp-aware mailserver at this time but there has been an unstable patch for mailman 2.1.5[1] and some other unstable encrypted list servers [2][3]). This Project could also help to evaluate the Mailman 3 plugin system. Some features could be: 1. Automatic pubkey collection from inbound mail 2. Outbound mail encryption and signature validation 3. Automatic keypair generation for pgp-aware lists 4. Inbound mail decryption and outbound mail signature 5. A mailinterface for organizing the encrypted lists, subscribers public keys and trust levels 6. A webinterface 7. PGP Information in the messages (e.g. was the incoming mail signed by a trusted subscriber?) 8. Optionally forced encryption (such a list never sends mail to an adress to which it can't encrypt with a pubkey that has a certain level of trust and/or won't accept inbound mail in plaintext) 9. Optionally forced signature (inbound mail to the list has to be signed with a key that has a certain level of trust in order to be published) 10. pgp-aware command system. (eg optionally only accept admin mail commands from signature-verified mail admins) Features 1.-5. are essential. Thoughts on Implementation: pygpgme could be used for encryption which might easily enable S/MIME as well. Keys could be stored in the filesystem or in databases using SQLAlchemy. The encryption step could be implemented as a pipeline. Encrypted lists in mailman would be great, I think I can implement the plugin myself but I will need help to ensure the reliability and security of the plugin. What are your thoughts on pgp in Mailman 3? Is this a suitable Project for the Google Summer of Code 2016? Would anyone be interested in becoming my mentor for this project? Thank you, Jonas [1]: https://non-gnu.uvt.nl/mailman-pgp-smime/ [2]: http://schleuder2.nadir.org/ [3]: http://schleuder2.nadir.org/documentation/v2.2/faq.html#index2h3 [View Less]

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Hi
by Saurav Kumar Feb. 28, 2016

Feb. 28, 2016

Hi, I'm Saurav Kumar, sophomore at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi. I have deep interest in contributing to open source software though i have no prior experience. I would love to have some one to guide me, I'm am very comfortable using Pyhton3 and thus wish to contribute to mailman-core. I have done a minor project on Flask and know a bit about using Django. Thank You Saurav Kumar -- Saurav Kumar Sophomore IIT BHU Varanasi

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2016 Contribution
by Abhilash Raj Feb. 27, 2016

Feb. 27, 2016

Hi Lakshman, On 02/27/2016 10:52 AM, Lakshmanan Meiyappan wrote: > Hi, I'm Lakshmanan, sophomore in Computer science and engineering. I love > programming, and I love python and I would like to contribute to mailman > project in this GSoC 16. I would be grateful if someone could guide me, as > I'm a beginner. I'm hard worker and I can invest most of my time into this. > It would be helpful if someone could help me in the process. Welcome! Stephen very recently answered this … [View More]

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