On Jul 10, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Paul Wise wrote:

I was looking at Mailman 3 to see how many of the Indymedia patches for Mailman 2 would be still needed.

The first thing that struck me was how generic the files that were installed in $PATH. I would really recommend mm-master, mm-runner, mm-onebounce or similar instead of the current master, runner, onebounce. Could that be changed?

MM3 is already way better than MM2 because as you observe, we only have 4 top-level commands now. Almost everything that was a separate command in MM2 now lives under the uber-command bin/mailman.

I don't much like the mm- prefix. Also, onebounce is just a helper, and actually it should go away once I've completed the refactoring of the bounce detector into a separate library (this is ongoing, but getting close to a 1.0 release).

master and runner are a bit more problematic because they are pretty handy as separate commands. I don't think they belong under bin/mailman and since they're of internal use only, I would never expect them to be installed into /usr/bin. More likely any vendor package would put them under /usr/lib/mailman/bin in an FHS world.

I'm not sure MM3 can function with master and runner under /usr/lib/mailman/bin but I would accept patches that made that work. (Or at least file a bug with a mailman3 tag).

Cheers, -Barry