Barry already answered many of these questions in response to a previous post I sent to mailman-users. Thank you Barry! I'm going to copy the relevant parts of Barry's response here to save other's time in responding:

-----Original Message----- From: mailman-users-bounces+gmayes=uoregon.edu@python.org [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+gmayes=uoregon.edu@python.org] On Behalf Of Barry Warsaw Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 12:09 PM To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead of Sympa (from Majordomo)

As for mm3 release, well, I think now that I'll be giving a talk at Pycon 2012 on it, I *have* to release it before then! There are two blockers, that I am attempting to solve before going into beta. 1) the REST API needs an authentication/authorization framework; 2) we need some kind of schema migration approach. Come on over to mailman-developers@ if you want to participate.

I know there is at least one site using mm3 in production today. I have some patches that need to be applied to improve the API performance, but I'm confident the core engine is pretty solid.

Nothing can replace actual field testing under real world conditions, but I'm pretty confident about the core engine. As I mentioned above, one way or another it has to go to beta before Pycon. :)

-Barry

-----Original Message----- From: mailman-developers-bounces+gmayes=uoregon.edu@python.org [mailto:mailman-developers-bounces+gmayes=uoregon.edu@python.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Mayes Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 11:52 AM To: mailman-developers@python.org Subject: [Mailman-Developers] MM3 testing report and beta timelines

Hello,

I was wondering how stable/reliable MM3 is at this point. Does anyone know (subjectively or objectively) how much testing it has received in the wild? How much internal testing has it gone through apart from the wonderful unit tests I've read about? According to Barry's alpha8 release announcement, it sounds like now is the time to start using it, so does that mean you all, as developers, consider it stable and ready to be put into production by large organizations?

What are the hopes and/or realistic plans for the beta period and GA?

Very curious, and thanks for any info,

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