I was away at the Python conference all last week, so it's nice to see there are only about 113 Mailman messages to catch up on :-). I will say that I thought Ken's talk went well, and we certainly had a lot of interest from Pythoneers about Mailman. We had a lot of interesting off-line discussions about where Mailman is and where it could go.

The following are my thoughts on what we need to do in the short term. I would like to have a stable 1.0 release by the time of the Usenix LISA 98 conference, where we have another paper and where John will (hopefully) be giving a talk. This isn't very far away so I feel we need to be *really* conservative in what we try to do before then.

I agree with John that internationalizing Mailman should be a top priority, but I don't really think we can make much headway in the next 3 weeks or so. In my experience CVS branches suck so I try to avoid them, but if other core developers have more confidence in them, I'll go along for the ride.

I think we should shoot for NO new features, but just banging the hell out of the current source tree, expecting to have all the current bugs shaken out in time for LISA. Once 1.0 is released, then we can talk about an architecture for supporting all the contributed translations. It's great to see there's a lot of enthusiasm for supporting languages other than English.

-Barry