-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 3, 2007, at 10:42 PM, Ethan Fremen wrote:
> Barry Warsaw wrote: > >> Of course, I think it /will/ make our lives harder in some ways. As >> we've seen, folks like cPanel have their own forks that they modify, >> and then their users come looking to us for support, which we can't >> give them. Having more public branches out there will increase our >> support costs. > > I would submit that much of what has caused people in the Mailman > community to maintain their own forks is because the software > design is > insufficiently open, not so much on account of checkin privileges. It's both I think, and they're related. The link is the FSF copyright assignment requirement, but that is a can of worms I really don't want to open up right now. My hope is that a dvcs will allow us to break that link and let innovation occur independently of the legal impositions. > Moving Mailman development to distributed trees will force, I suspect, > more modularization and extensibility of the code, which will > reduce the > need for long-lived, independent forks. Modularization is a very high priority for me in the next release. > Basically, I suspect that while it might increase support issues in > the > short term, it will ultimately reduce the support-to-participant > ratio. That's my hope too. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRjs2nnEjvBPtnXfVAQIiUgP9GgqTRLbD/cxYQ/bv/0FLbHxbGFiUBBPw StxUjn7Yo9smnv2V/ek3eEeB3ygyBNREYE08Jwj488jBIdVerGZmKxOpMxlg4H4i Q0/HwmnX/n45+zOYGidYgfJdjCeELnC4JUabuqRoI21z1N4kbkX49l5geueJ+Mcs cAjKbQcPYE0= =Jr3C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp