I hope you'll all join me in welcoming our new Google Summer of Code students:
Benedict Stein (benste on IRC) will be working to complete the GSoC work Anna did last summer on the django-based web UI for Mailman 3.0.
Drew Rodman will be converting pipermail to use SQL (rather than pickles) for storing data and creating an upgrade script to help users migrate their archives to the new format. He's even hoping to get Stable URLs working by the end of the summer!
Dushyant Bansal (dushyant on IRC) will be working on the interface of the archives, integrating work from Yian and Priya's GSoC projects last summer and getting it all ready to go for Mailman 3.
I'm really excited to have all these great projects and great students!
While the students do have a set of official mentors (Barry, Florian, Anna and me), you're all encouraged to help out throughout the summer. The end goal is to have some fully integrated awesomeness, so don't be shy if you've got questions, suggestions, etc.
If you've been lurking here wondering how to get involved with Mailman 3, now might be a great time: we've got mentors who've already set aside time to be involved this summer, and we've got students who could benefit from having more people involved in development effort over the next few months. For example, we discovered while our students were writing patches that we don't have a great description of the Mailman 3 install process, so if you want to install it and write up your experiences on the wiki (or just in a blog post we can link to!), that's a great place to start!
Terri