Hi Stephen, Thank you for your comments, I have only two more cents to add (see below)
On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 5:06 PM Stephen J. Turnbull <[email protected]> wrote: > Banner seen at the World Baseball Classic: > > +----------------------------------+ > | | > | Mom! send money or developers! | > | | > +----------------------------------+ > This is funny, of course, but I'm already sending money monthly for a while as a Mailman official donor mentioned on the page https://wiki.list.org/COM/Donors Also, I make a lot of contributions to various Mailman repositories, you can see them on the page https://gitlab.com/danil-smirnov As per the Opus 4.6-powered investigation, code-wise, I contributed 45 commits with 2,657 line insertions and 576 deletions in 2025-26. > I think there are about 10 committers still, but as you know only Mark > and I are active on the lists, and only Mark and Abhilash are doing a > lot of reviewing outside of GSoC. None of us are paid to do Mailman > development, or even get "release time" from our employers from it.[1] > If I were you, I'd definitely consider expanding the reviewer team*. You look very much like a bottleneck on this project now (see Дилян's email). * - I personally can not join because of the conflict of interest. Sincerely, Danil Smirnov > > and we still don't have the "List Configuration Tool" available > > after 3 years, so I suppose I have the right to raise this issue... > > You have the right to do (or fund[2]) the work too. The last time I > talked to the contributor he wanted to finish the work, but if I had > an offer I'd talk to him and most likely he'd be willing to let > somebody else finish up. In the meantime I had other things I wanted > to work on, which is, you know, how we volunteers roll. > > > Footnotes: > [1] OK, Mark and I are now retired, but we do have non-Mailman lives. > > [2] Note that funding the work gets you the feature, but it doesn't > necessarily guarantee it gets in to the public distribution. Most > likely work that was solicited for GSoC would get in, but I've seen a > few implementations of solicited features that were "good enough" for > the developer, but unacceptable for some reason to various projects. > > -- > GNU Mailman consultant (installation, migration, customization) > Sirius Open Source https://www.siriusopensource.com/ > Software systems consulting in Europe, North America, and Japan > _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-developers.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: https://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: https://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
