On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 04:37, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Hrm. Maybe a way to turn on X-No-Archive should be part of this > patch? (Or does Mailman offer that already? I don't see it.)
Not on the Mailman side. > Good trick, that. Mailman is free software; it will be months before > the revised code propagates to all the major distros Or years. It's bad enough I still get bug reports about Mailman 2.0, but there are sites still running <shudder> Mailman 1.x. > , let alone the > small-time variants. How long would it take Apple to get a Software > Update out? During that period, Mailman is offering a service that it > can't support. Nor do I think Mailman's reaction would be > particularly swift---isn't this the kind of thing that as a technical > matter really should wait until the next scheduled release? > > Again, I'm not really arguing against the patch. It's the people who > might be doing extra releases (Barry and Tokio, right?) or answering > the FAQs (Brad and Mark, primus inter pares) who should decide if it > belongs in the Mailman distribution. > > I do advocate some kind of public statement about the policy toward > adding new facilities of this kind. One easy one would be "you write > the patch, and show that you conform to certain rules such as 'patch > defaults off' and 'service respects X-No-Archive as well as conforming > to relevant RFCs', and we'll put it in to the next regular release > that isn't already in feature freeze." > > Or maybe it's worth encouraging such services, and being more helpful > about it. I think I've stated my general philosophy in a previous message. If WizzyMTA came with a new plug-in, documentation, and some promise of support help (if only to answer questions on mailman-users), we'd probably add the module in the next release. If we had a similar plug-in architecture for multiple 3rd-party archivers, we'd facilitate the same kind of thing for that service. I'd be all for that. -Barry
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