Larry Stone writes: > I'm surprised none of the developers here have answered (unless I somehow > missed it)
I think it's probably just time differentials, and the fact that the only developer currently active on mailman-users is Mark. 2.1.12 is the latest release in the 2.x series. It was intended to be superseded by the 2.2 branch, but it looks like it may continue in maintenance mode for a couple more releases. I would expect that future changes to 2.1.x will be more of the "damn the spammers, but we have to do something about this new abuse they've cooked up" rather than "bright shiny things" or even "mile-deep roach decides to look at the sun" -- there probably are not many implementation bugs left, although there are a raft of design problems. The 2.2 branch has been cancelled in favor of 2.2-oriented developers helping with 3.0. There just wasn't enough manpower being applied to address the design issues, and 3.0 is a much nicer platform for developing a better UIs etc. 3.0 is currently in active development. To call it "alpha" is a misnomer; the implementation is currently very incomplete. It's actually usable as a mailing list distribution agent, but most of the UI is as yet missing (at last report). I expect early UI development will go pretty fast as a lot of basic stuff can be ported from 2.x, but then things may slow down again as thorny issues like backscatter and radical UI improvement are addressed. Discussion of Mailman 3 occurs on the mailman-developers list and on the Mailman wiki. If you're just looking for the latest production version of Mailman, that's 2.1.12. HTH, and of course Barry and Mark are authoritative sources here. Steve ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
