[Mailman-Developers] development setup?

Gentlebeings,

As we enter the end of my SoC internship, I still have a long road to hoe to get to a complete UI for Mailman.

That being said, I'm definitely going to continue working with this at least until it makes it into a mainline release, and hopefully longer.

Here's my quandary: I need to have several mailman installs 'up and running' - on a "I can talk to the pickles" level, anyway.

How do I get such a beast out of svn? INSTALL points me to an 'admin' directory that isn't in svn. I had thought of just adding svn_dir to my pythonpath, but I need a configuration file, and in general I would like my code to be verbatim what is needed to run it against a production server.

Thanks,

~ethan