[ANNOUNCE] Mailman 2.0 beta 2
I've just uploaded the Mailman 2.0 beta 2 tarball to the following locations:
http://www.list.org/mailman.tar.gz
http://download.sourceforge.net/mailman/mailman-2.0beta2.tgz
ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/mailman/mailman-2.0beta2.tgz
See the UPGRADING file for details on upgrading from 1.1 or 2.0beta1. See the NEWS file for a complete description of changes for every version; below is an excerpt for changes since 2.0beta1.
Barring any showstopping bugs, this will be the last release until I finish my taxes. :)
Enjoy, -Barry
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Rewritten gate_news cron script which should be more efficient and avoid race and locking problems. Each list now maintains its own watermark, and when you use the admin CGI script to turn on gating from Usenet->mail, an automatic mass catch up is done to avoid flooding the mailing list. cron/gate_news's command line interface has also changed. See its docstring for details.
A new cron script called qrunner has been added to retry message deliveries that fail because of temporary smtpd problems.
New command line script called bin/list_lists which does exactly that: lists all the mailing lists on the system (much like the listinfo CGI does).
bin/withlist is now directly executable, however if you want to use python -i, you must still explicitly invoke it. bin/withlist also now cleans up after itself by unlocking any locked lists. It does NOT save any dirty lists though - you must do this explicitly.
$prefix permissions (and all subdirs) must now be 02775. bin/check_perms has been updated to fix all the subdir permissions.
"make update" (a.k.a. bin/update) is run automatically when you do a "make install"
The CGI driver script now puts information about the Python environment into the logs/error file (but not the diagnostic web page).
Bug fixes and some performance improvements
On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 05:54:44PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
Barring any showstopping bugs, this will be the last release until I finish my taxes. :)
There's one bug that would really like to be squashed before 2.0, I think: the 'from ' line in the downloadable mailbox (the stripped version of the pipermail archive mailbox) that carries the wrong date format. I posted a patch a week ago or so, so that the downloadable mailboxes are at least usable. The only possible problem is that ctime() might generate different output on different locales, but I dont think so, and the manpage for ctime() on Linux and BSDI dont mention it. Drop me a line if I need to repost it. (Btw, should I post this bug to the jitterbug page, even if I have a patch for it ?)
There are some other problems with the mailboxes, for instance that in squashing the headers, the references line gets squashed too, but I'll save those for later ;)
I also have a few changes locally, that might be included later (if desirable, of course): partial rewrite of hyperarch/pipermail, actually losing the latter (no functional changes, but a lot less hairy code, if I say so myself), unsubscription-approval, like subscription (posted a buggy version before) and some hacks to allow members of one list to post to another, moderated list they are not members of.
I'm also pondering making members of a list that are themselves lists, a special case, to skip the password-sending, allow posting, dont screw the subject line too much, etc. (Those things would solve a lot of the minor annoyances in some of our lists.) But all that might be a lot easier if that 'real user database' gets included ;)
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"TW" == Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net writes:
>> Barring any showstopping bugs, this will be the last release
>> until I finish my taxes. :)
TW> There's one bug that would really like to be squashed before
TW> 2.0, I think
2.0beta2 definitely won't be the last release before 2.0 final. I just don't think I'm going to have many free evenings to hack on this stuff until after April 17th :).
I don't think you need to repost your patches; I'll be cruising through as many of the outstanding messages and Jitterbug reports as possible before 2.0 final.
I'm totally psyched to have you rewrite/fix/adopt/expend great amounts of effort on the archiver, but I'll have to hold off on integrating that stuff until after 2.0 final.
thanks, -Barry
On sam, avr 08, 2000 at 05:54:44 -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
I've just uploaded the Mailman 2.0 beta 2 tarball to the following locations:
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- Rewritten gate_news cron script which should be more efficient and avoid race and locking problems. Each list now maintains its own
Thank you, I don't receive 30 failed lock messages a day anymore :-)
I've noticed a small problem though: Subscribe/unsubscribe messages don't have a To: field anymore
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Barry A. Warsaw
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Marc Merlin
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Thomas Wouters