On Sep 10, 2012, at 12:25 PM, Terri Oda wrote:
As I've mentioned before, I'm interested in seeing dynamic sublists replace topics in Mailman 3.0. We've got a student working on the port, but honestly he's been dragging his heels and I'm starting to doubt it's going to be done by the end of September.
What do you think the best timing for new feature-ish things? I'm guessing post-release makes more sense, but if there's a window of pre-release time that would make sense for this I might be able to help with the push and make sure we get in under the wire. Deadlines are always good motivation. ;)
I love this feature and would like to see it in Mailman at some point, but I think it's too late for 3.0. The ideal approach would be to continue to work on a branch of lp:mailman and even do a merge proposal of that when and if it's ready.
At some point close to 3.0 final, I'll create a maintenance branch (e.g. lp:mailman/3.0) and trunk will then be assigned to 3.1. I'll then fiddle the Launchpad metadata to indicate the 3.1 is the focus of development, and we'll just do bug fixes against 3.0.
Cheers, -Barry