[Mailman-Developers] Getting Started with Mailman Development

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Sep 25, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Morgan Reed wrote:

>      I'm currently looking at creating a fork of mailman to add
> support for GPG encrypted mailing lists, however given that mailman is
> a rather complex beast I'm having trouble figuring out where to start.
>
> Can somebody direct me to a good structural overview of how all the
> bits and pieces of mailman fit together?

There isn't a good architecture document, but there should be,  
probably captured in the code or on the wiki.  Your best bet is to dig  
in and ask lots of questions here.

Mailman 3 is being developed pretty religiously using test-driven  
development and doctests, which are testable documentation -- but  
documentation first.  It doesn't provide a good overview, but it does  
provide good documentation on the specific components.  However,  
Mailman 3's architecture is different than Mailman 2.x in some  
significant ways.  In some ways (e.g. the queue runners) it's very  
similar though.

- -Barry

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