[Mailman-Developers] Re: Cute TMDA use

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "JRM" == Jason R Mastaler <jason@mastaler.com> writes:

    JRM> barry@python.org (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:

    >> I agree this would be ideal, but I wouldn't do it for MM2.1.

    JRM> Why not?  Just because it would involve more changes than are
    JRM> appropriate for a release in beta?

Yes, and because we currently have no database that's shared across
mailing lists.  Issues I don't want to think about include concurrent
access to a shared database.

    >> Certainly for MM3.0 when we have a federated user database,
    >> this makes perfect sense.

    JRM> I'm not familiar with a ``federated user database''.

One user database shared by all mailing lists.  This will be the
primary focus of Mailman 3.0.

-Barry