On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dustin, thanks for starting the conversation here. Of course, I'm no > longer on the Launchpad team, so I can't speak to resources or timelines. My > primary "free time" hacking these days is on Mailman 3 and I made some good > progress over the holiday break toward my goal of integrating it with > Launchpad (e.g. I actually got list creation working through MM3's REST API). > I did end up getting side-tracked on some yak-shaving but I'm going to try to > make another spike on integration soon. > > One thing is important to understand though: while Mailman comes with a > bundled archiver (called Pipermail), Launchpad does not use it. Launchpad > uses MHonArc primarily for the (configurable) ability to retain stable URLs > when the archives are regenerated from scratch. This is a long standing > deficiency in Pipermail.
Another possibility is to move from a static-file archiver to just delivering views on the messages dynamically, which would likely make a lot of things easier; we've been investigating highly scalable db's - Cassandra in particular - that would offset any scaling concerns. -Rob _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
