On Dec 18, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote:

> I've worked with code in many languages that is so cryptically
> commented, with variable names that were so non-descriptive (Dan
> Bernstein's qmail code comes to mind) as to be totally useless if one
> wanted to look under the hood for help.  Mailman code is quite the
> opposite - well organized with copious comments which can be very
> helpful if one knows even a little about the program structure.  Even if
> you don't grok python, or OO programming, there's a lot to be learned
> here.

Thanks!  Mailman 3 should be even better.  I'm a huge fan of doctests (not 
exclusive to unittests, but highly favored) so there should be fairly 
comprehensive narratives for all the component parts.  Soon I'll be fleshing 
out some higher level overview type documentation too.  And because it's all 
doctest/sphinx, you can generate nice HTML, which I try to do when I release 
new versions.

-Barry

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