Hi,
I started working on docker files for Mailman.
I created three repositories:
- https://github.com/simonsmiley/postorius-docker
Holds the files needed to create a postorius container
- https://github.com/simonsmiley/mailman-docker
Holds the files needed to create a core container
- https://github.com/simonsmiley/mailman-compose
Holds docker-compose files that greatly simply the process of running
the containers
* The mailman repo currently lacks documentation
* Currently no emails can be sent.
I still have to figure out what the best way is...
* Hyperkitty will be added next
(together with a complete "bundler" install)
I pushed two images to the docker hub. Their names are
thelinuxguy/postorius and thelinuxguy/mailman
I created two organizations
mailman on docker hub and gnu-mailman on github
https://github.com/gnu-mailmanhttps://hub.docker.com/u/mailman/
I know we shouldn't use github, but there is no way around
github/bitbucket for automated builds on docker hub.
I post here to inform you about the docker images and I also to ask if
I'm allowed to keep these two organizations and move my images/repos
there. I'll happily give push/owner access to additional people if
requested.
The repositories could be mirrored to the gitlab mailman group,
sadly the process doesn't work the other way round just yet.
In case this request gets denied, I'll just remove the organizations and
let the images be "unofficial".
cheers,
Simon
In February, 2015 I changed the wiki.list.org theme to match the then
current Mailman site theme. Since then, list.org got a much needed
makeover. I've been trying to avoid volunteering to update the wiki
theme, but you've cleverly out-waited me.
May I have access to the wiki machine so that I can change the theme
with access to the current content?
Or, would someone be willing to archive up the current content/config
and send it to me?
The last time I overlooked some of the corner cases because I was
working with my standard MoinMoin rather than the wiki.list.org content
and configuration.
Jim
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Jim Tittsler, Tokyo
irc.freenode.net
You may have seen this post from Lars Ingebrigtsen of Gnus and Gmane fame; it
was linked from Slashdot over the weekend:
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/
If you're not familiar with Gmane, you really should check it out while you
can. I think it's the perfect companion to Mailman, providing free archives
for open source mailing lists of all kind. My favorite thing about it is the
NNTP interface to mailing list archives. Remember Usenet? It's really NNTP
underneath and there are some excellent news readers that let you have very
good access to years of older posts. I am a Claw-Mail user and it provides a
fairly seamless integration of regular email and news (e.g. Gmane over NNTP).
The powerful thing for me is that for mailing lists I care about, but don't
want to be subscribed to, I can just catch up every so often on the Gmane
newsgroup. I can even post from the Gmane mirror, and I don't have to keep
personal archives of any mirrored public mailing list. All the Mailman lists
are available on Gmane.
But Lars has apparently burned out and is considering shuddering Gmane. This
would be a huge loss for the FLOSS community IMHO, and I hope the outpouring
of goodwill on his blog posts (along with any donations of time, resources,
and money) will keep Gmane alive. It seems like all might not be lost:
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/comment-page-1/#co…
Getting back to Mailman, I've long wanted a built-in NNTP interface to mailing
list archives. Long ago I prototyped a bridge from Mailman 2 to NNTP via
Twisted. It wasn't that much work, but of course it was only a prototype.
With Mailman 3's architecture, I think it would be a fairly straightforward
project, so I'm here to hopefully excite and challenge one of *you* to think
about doing it. :)
Of course, it wouldn't be Gmane, and I'm not sure we need exactly that.
First, it wouldn't be federated across the wide FLOSS world, but it would
still be extremely useful. Second, we have so much goodness in HyperKitty
that the web side of Gmane wouldn't be as important for us. Still, the
ability to have direct NNTP access to mailing list archives built into Mailman
3 would be really darn cool, IMHO.
As an aside, Lars would make the whole of the Gmane spool available, and it
might be really cool to see how well HK can consume and vend it. Given that
Lars seems to say that it's more likely that the NNTP/SMTP bridge will
survive, but not the web ui. Wouldn't it be cool if HK could serve as a
modern version of a web ui to the Gmane treasure trove?
Anyway, I'm putting this out there - hopefully some one of you might be
willing and able to take it up.
Cheers,
-Barry
On Jul 29, 2016, at 02:06 PM, Anirudh Dahiya wrote:
>I've put up a blog post mentioning the progress made in the project.
>http://codefullofsummer.blogspot.in/2016/07/a-long-due-post-status-update.h…
Very cool, thanks for the blog post!
We had a great discussion this morning on IRC about the Core issues and I
think you have a plan for going forward. There's still a little sticky bit
about how to handle the database migration, but we should be able to figure
that out.
Keep up the great work!
Cheers,
-Barry
Previously I mentioned the three big outstanding branches that I'd like to
land for Mailman 3.1 Core, the templates branch, the MySQL support branch, and
the unsubscription workflow branch.
I've now also gone through all the bugs previously targeted to milestone 3.1,
and there are only three left:
https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/milestones/2
I think these are important enough to fix for 3.1 and I welcome merge requests
while the other three branches are ongoing.
Please take a look at any other bugs not assigned to milestone 3.1 and let me
know if you think any are serious enough to block the 3.1 release. I'll say
in advance that I'm going to be brutal in assessing them, because 3.1 really
needs to be released soon!
Note too that there may be blockers for Postorius, Hyperkitty, and
mailman.client, but I haven't looked at those subprojects yet. How close are
they to being release ready?
Cheers,
-Barry
Hello developers!
There are three big features still in progress for Mailman 3.1, the templates
branch, MySQL support, and unsubscription workflow. There is already a merge
request for MySQL support and I'm hoping to merge that soon. Abhilash is also
working on the unsubscription workflow feature but there's no MR for that yet.
The templates feature is very nearly done, so I think now is a good time to
ask for testing, feedback, and review. This is a generalization of the
welcome_message_uri feature in MM3.0 where you could specify e.g. the welcome
message as a URL to download and cache when necessary. This is important
because Core doesn't know whether there is even a web ui (e.g. Postorius)
involved, or where things like clickable links to unsubscribe would be. Sites
also want to customize footers to include information like codes of conduct,
etc.
Now (or when this branch lands), you will be able to specify a URL to retrieve
any template that Mailman uses internally, whether they are confirmation
messages, bounce probes, welcome and goodbye messages, etc. These can be
templates for administrators, users, and members.
Because I'm hoping to get some reviews, I'll point you at the documentation
for more details:
https://gitlab.com/warsaw/mailman/blob/templates/src/mailman/rest/docs/temp…
The branch did end up being much bigger and tentacled than I expected, but
it's all hanging together pretty well now, and all the tests pass. There's
still a small number of to-dos, but some of them will get punted, and the
others won't have a major effect on the overall use and visibility of the
feature.
https://gitlab.com/warsaw/mailman/blob/templates/TODO.rst
Note also that if you interact with the REST API v3.0, nothing changes
externally, but the old IMailingList attributes are mapped onto the new
templates mechanism. API v3.1 is where you see all the actual new feature
end-points exposed. Of course, any MM2 list converted to MM3.1 will use the
new templates stuff too.
Feedback very much welcome, either here or on the MR:
https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/merge_requests/170
I'd like to land this some time in the next week or so. Then I'll work on the
other two big branches and start to release some betas.
Cheers,
-Barry
