Barry Warsaw wrote:
Do you want to integrate all of the archiver and search code into Mailman 3 or just some integration code? Despite the way Pipermail's always been bundled with Mailman 2, I'm not sure that's the most productive way to structure the project going forward. In fact, I'd like to split Pipermail out of the Mailman 3 bzr tree (and started to go down that path at one point) and MM3's architecture allows for much easier integration with external archivers (even multiple ones at the same time). So it might make sense to structure the Syster's archiver work as a separate project too.
Right now, the archiver demos just eat Mailman mbox files for lunch (in theory they could be even integrated with a 2.1 installation) so splitting should be easy from a technical standpoint.
But there's only a handful of developers working on this, and I think the overhead, however small, is more than it's worth at the moment. So maybe we could keep them integrated for now until it's more clearly a win to split the tree off?
Mostly, I don't want my own project right now: I'm worried that I'd wind up being a blocker on something due to limited time over the next 6 months. I mean, these demos were done in August and I'm just posting them to the list now... We can revisit splitting it off when I have more time or more help. :)
Meanwhile, I'll get in touch with Priya and Yian and see about copyright assignment and getting those branches merged into somewhere appropriate in the tree.
Terri