On Aug 16, 2016, at 07:13 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:
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.
It's not an invalid concern, to be completely honest. I feel very confident that we have a flexible, robust, approachable architecture and code base, and we *can* do a lot. It's also often relatively easy to add features, and especially expose functionality via REST. Hyperkitty and Postorius are Django apps, so I think those components are more interesting to people, more interesting to work on, and so have a larger draw to gain more contributors. The core, not as much, but it also doesn't need as much work. Our biggest need IMHO is dedicated UI/UX experts. Cheers, -Barry