[Mailman-Developers] VM for Mailman development

[Andrea Crotti]

On 03/19/2012 11:02 PM, Terri Oda wrote:
> On 03/19/2012 03:14 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>> At this point, I don't know whether the best approach is look for a
>> more complete development box for Vagrant or figure out how to
>> provision the basic Vagrant box with what I need or forget Vagrant and
>> install directly in VirtualBox or go with a dual-boot.
>>
>> Anyway, it's going to be interesting to figure this out.
>
> Incidentally, how much interest would there be in having a 
> Mailman-developer VM (say, for VirtualBox) around and easy to 
> download?  Some modern distro, appropriate dev tools, and a checkout 
> of moderately recent code, maybe even ready to run with instructions 
> on the desktop or something?  It seems like it might be a nice thing 
> to hand out to prospective GSoC students as well as Mark. ;)  The 
> Systers folk made one a few years ago for 2.1 dev and maybe it's time 
> for an updated version?
>
>  Terri


That sounds like a good idea :)
In this case, maybe something declarative with puppet/vagrant might 
really be a very good idea, since
it's much easier to ship a configuration file and it has to be deployed 
/ updated easily...