- Barry Warsaw <barry@list.org>:
On Sep 16, 2012, at 01:41 PM, Adam McGreggor wrote:
Part of the attraction in using Mailman 2, was that, for the majority of tasks end-users want to do, they can do it via the web interface; certainly an advantage over those "you have to do everything by email, in the proscribed manner, to the right address" 'alternatives' (I say 'alternatives' as I don't think they're fit for non-geeks (and even some struggle with those).
I would not roll-out Mailman 3 if there were not an end-users' web interface, at the very least for subscription management/alterations.
Maybe now that the core is pretty close to what it will be like when released, we can get more volunteers to help test Postorius, and perhaps contribute to it? It would be cool if we could do a simultaneous release, but OTOH, the architecture of MM3 expressly encourages separation of the web ui from the engine.
I think if we release MM3 without 'a frontend' we will miss people's expectation to get a feature complete MLM - which includes a frontend in most peoples opinion I guess.
I do think that if we release them separately, we'll have to be very clear about setting expectations.
I wouldn't do it.
p@rick
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