Barry already answered many of these questions in response to a previous post I sent to mailman-users. Thank you Barry! I'm going to copy the relevant parts of Barry's response here to save other's time in responding:
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Barry Warsaw > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 12:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead > of Sympa (from Majordomo) > As for mm3 release, well, I think now that I'll be giving a talk at Pycon > 2012 on > it, I *have* to release it before then! There are two blockers, that I am > attempting to solve before going into beta. 1) the REST API needs an > authentication/authorization framework; 2) we need some kind of schema > migration approach. Come on over to mailman-developers@ if you want to > participate. > > I know there is at least one site using mm3 in production today. I have some > patches that need to be applied to improve the API performance, but I'm > confident the core engine is pretty solid. > > Nothing can replace actual field testing under real world conditions, but I'm > pretty confident about the core engine. As I mentioned above, one way or > another it has to go to beta before Pycon. :) > > -Barry > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Geoff Mayes > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 11:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Mailman-Developers] MM3 testing report and beta timelines > > Hello, > > I was wondering how stable/reliable MM3 is at this point. Does anyone > know (subjectively or objectively) how much testing it has received in the > wild? How much internal testing has it gone through apart from the > wonderful unit tests I've read about? According to Barry's alpha8 release > announcement, it sounds like now is the time to start using it, so does that > mean you all, as developers, consider it stable and ready to be put into > production by large organizations? > > What are the hopes and/or realistic plans for the beta period and GA? > > Very curious, and thanks for any info, > > Geoff Mayes > _______________________________________________ > Mailman-Developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman- > developers/gmayes%40uoregon.edu > > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
