On Sep 2, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Karl Fogel wrote:
(By the way, as far as I can tell, upstream isn't very active anymore;we'd likely be maintaining a patch against it. The most recent releaseis 2.6.16, from June of 2006. There is still a small amount of CVScommit activity, and dev@ list activity, so maybe there will be anotherrelease someday, but... it's been three years. See http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/mhonarc-commits/ and http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/mhonarc-dev/ for details.)
I think there's a general dearth of activity with open source archivers. Perhaps the rise of Google, and public archive services like mail-archive.com have killed enthusiasm for such work, which is a shame IMO.
There has been talk recently within the Mailman community of splitting Pipermail out into a separate project again, and devoting some resources to improving it. AFAIK, it's the only Python-based archiver around, and while it's got it's problems, many people like it. It deserves to be a separate project and I think with a bit of love, it could be a very usable replacement for our current MHonArc-based archiver. Plus it might give us the opportunity to develop some interesting archiver tie-ins I've been thinking about.
-Barry
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