Hi folks, I've been pondering about the difficulties PM faces in terms of getting new contributors, and one of the core issues, as I see it, is our choice of using Lua for the web application. Apart from locking people to apache/nginx, it seems that people are - for lack of another word - scared to touch the lua part of it, leaving only 2-3 people working on it.
Therefore, I would like to propose that we switch (after 0.10) to a pure python setup for Pony Mail. Thus, both the archivers and the web app would be python. This would also rid us of a lot of homegrown self-invented wheels within the project. I will of course do my best to help with the bulk of the work here, and I would be immensely grateful if others would support this and help out with the process of converting. I also have acknowledgements from a few people that would like to help with the transition, should we agree on this. So....thoughts? With regards, Daniel.
