[Mailman-Developers] mailman 3.0 roadmap, feature-parity with mailman 2.x and documentation

[shirish]

Hi all,

Thank you for the unblemished service by Mailman. It is due to you that 
many FOSS projects continue to see the light of the day as email 
continues to hold its sway on developers rather than forums and mail 
management continues to be easier due to Mailman.

Newbie here. I have been reading the Mailman wiki page specifically 
http://wiki.list.org/DEV/Mailman%203.0

Now from the wiki page :-

"We aim to release Mailman 3.0rc1 in late April, 2015." - wiki entry

While RC1 is hopefully round the corner there doesn't seem to be a 
roadmap at least within mailman. The launchpad series gives the following :-

https://launchpad.net/mailman/+series

What would be nice is if there is some ETA as to when 3.0 will be 
released to the general public. Are there going to be another 2-3-4 RC 
releases before 3.0 is ready ?

Another query :-

" It is not yet at full feature parity with Mailman 2.x, but we're 
working on that for 3.1. "  - wiki entry on the same page.

While this is good to know, is there a matrix of features somewhere 
which shows features of mailman 2.x vs mailman 3.0 . I am unable to find 
such a page in the wiki or perhaps I didn't search enough.

In any case if there is a listing of features of both mailman 3.x and 
mailman 2.x  would be helpful for both newbies as well as experienced 
users as it will look like a snapshot of the features integrated or used 
in the new release. It doesn't have to be finished today but if there is 
even some information about the existence of such a page with 
differences between 2.x and 3.x would be immensely helpful.


Lastly, the documentation for 3.0.x seems to be a good way at 
http://gnu-mailman.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ would be nicer if there 
was a way to generate .pdf from the content therein.

Look forward to trying out Mailman 3 soonish.
-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org