With Pycon 2012 coming up in the next few days, and most of the core Mailman developers attending the sprints[1], we have a opportunity to reach some important milestones with Mailman 3.
You are of course invited to join us. Please sign up on the project page below so we can make the appropriate plans.
Don't forget to come to my talk on Saturday at 4:55pm local time[2].
We'll have two main goals for the sprint, and possibly a third:
- Do a face-to-face integration of the web ui for MM3, identifying any concerns or missing functionality in the API, reviewing the ui design, fix related bugs, etc.
- Solidify the core engine so that I can release beta 1.
- Possibly, make progress on the next-gen archiver.
Yes, you read that right. At long last, I believe the core engine is solid enough to move into beta. This means we'll freeze the database schema and use the migration mechanism for any future updates, and we'll also feature freeze so we can concentrate on bug fixing[3]. So beta 1 is planned for during or just after the sprints.
Finally, I have put up a test server, which you are invited to join and use. Right now, you only have access to the email command interface, meaning you must join and leave the mailing list via email commands and confirmations. Once joined, you can of course post to the list.
Note that this list is running on a virtual machine, so it, the domain, or the Mailman service can disappear at any time. Occasionally, I'll stop the system, run it in debug mode (meaning your posts will not go to the list), update the software, etc. If something looks weird, please try again, or email me, or file a bug on Launchpad[4]. Please include the original email or at least the Message-Id of the message you sent that caused the problem.
I will be watching the logs when I can. Be good citizens and reasonable users. Abuse will not be tolerated and will get you banned at the MTA.
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Enjoy, and I hope to see you at Pycon.
Cheers, -Barry
[1] https://us.pycon.org/2012/community/sprints/projects/ [2] I guess I should write it, eh? <wink> https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/ [3] Of course, I get to decide what's a bug and what's a missing feature :) [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+filebug Please tag the bug with 'mailman3'
On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 02:23:04PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
- Possibly, make progress on the next-gen archiver.
Greetings, I'l be there and looking to talk with some people about this. I work with a talented interaction designer that's been thinking about better UI for archives for a few years. Hopefully I'll have a prototype so people can see some of her ideas in practice and then we can look at how to improve on that.
-Toshio
Toshio Kuratomi writes:
On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 02:23:04PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
- Possibly, make progress on the next-gen archiver.
Greetings, I'l be there and looking to talk with some people about this.
I'll be there, and I'm definitely interested in the archiver. While pipermail has been fine for my lists so far, I'd really like a few features that it can't give us. And of course it's been a sore point for years.
I suspect it's something that we could get lucky on and produce best of breed, too. I can't say I'm real happy with any of the commercial archivers or Gmane.
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Toshio Kuratomi