On Aug 16, 2016, at 7:06 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
On Aug 15, 2016, at 03:17 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
(b) Mailman 3 (immature next-generation mailing list).
By "maturity" I means that as far as I know the upstream project believes the platform to be feature-rich, and may not be excited by the idea of supporting our use case.
Just to be clear, I very definitely support such use cases in Mailman 3. Finding resources and volunteers to work on them is another matter. ;)
This is one of my concerns with MM3 to be honest. I don’t know what Mailman’s contributor base or how many developers hours it has available to it. There is however a distinct difference between having the capability to modify the software to do what we want (e.g. it’s all written in Python and is OSS, so I assume everyone on this list is capable of doing it) and having the resources available and the interest to do it. Assuming we identify deficiencies in Mailman do we have the available resources and are they interested in fixing those things? I suspect the answer is “it depends”, but I think it’s something that is important to think about. — Donald Stufft