On 2020-08-26 21:28:30 (+0800), Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote:
So, I have volunteered to spearhead an effort to add one or two more people to the Mailman Coders group[2] in order to vet and approve new features that continue the long tradition of providing value to Mailman 2.x. Who's with me on this?
This is another long thread with many interesting points of view.
I agree that new installations should probably use Mailman 3.x and trivial installations should migrate from Mailman 2.x to 3.x sooner rather than later. On the other hand, I don't believe that there is currently a burning need for large, complicated Mailman 2.x installations to hurry up and migrate to 3.x already.
The FreeBSD Project runs an awful lot of very active mailing lists on Mailman 2.x. It's probably inevitable that we will eventually upgrade to Mailman 3.x. Given how active our mailing lists are and what Big Scary Daemons we have in our mailflow, this will likely be disruptive no matter what.
In an effort to keep the disruption to a minimum, we're letting others exercise the upgrade paths before us. Hopefully by the time we find that we are forced to upgrade (for whatever reason), we won't run into too many edge cases of migration others haven't tried before us.
Meanwhile, we're very grateful for any efforts to keep Mailman 2.x at least slightly maintained. Count me in for helping out with that.
Thank you!
Philip [hat: postmaster@freebsd.org]
-- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Alternative Enterprises