[Mailman-Developers] [Mailman-Announce] Mailman 2.x Roadmap

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jan 3, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Barry has been making wonderful progress with Mailman 3.0 and has just
> announced the second alpha release.
>
> This may leave some of you wondering what's happening with the Mailman
> 2.x series, so this note is for all interested Mailman users,
> developers and translators to give an idea of what to expect in
> Mailman 2.x in the coming months.
>
> Within the next few days, I plan to release Mailman 2.1.12rc1. This
> release contains several minor bug fixes since 2.1.11 and is updated
> for compatibility with Python 2.6. It will not work with Python older
> than 2.4.
>
> In the absence of "show stopping" bugs, the only changes between this
> and the final 2.1.12 release will be translation updates. I expect to
> release the final by the end of January.
>
> After January, my focus will be on Mailman 2.2. This branch was
> originally intended to be an overhaul of Mailman's GUI, but that work
> is stalled and will be deferred to Mailman 2.3 or 3.0. The focus of
> Mailman 2.2 will be ongoing maintenance of the 2.x series and several
> small new features that have not been added in the 2.1 branch because
> of i18n considerations.
>
> I hope to be able to release a 2.2 beta before the end of March, 2009.

Mark, thanks for publishing this roadmap.  It seems right on target to  
me, with one comment.  I really hope that there will not be a Mailman  
2.3.  I agree we'd hoped that 2.2 would include an updated web ui, but  
if that won't happen in 2.2, I'd really like to see that effort put  
into 3.0.  I agree that there are plenty of other good things that can  
go into the 2.2 series to make it very much worthwhile, but after that  
I think we should concentrate on 3.0, where the backend storage and  
other architectural improvements will really pay off.

Cheers,
- -Barry

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