On Fri 2026.07.03 at 16:02 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2026/07/02 23:43, Daniel Dickman wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2 Jul 2026, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > 
> > > On 2026/07/01 17:21, Daniel Dickman wrote:
> > > 
> > > mailman2 and mailman3 need to be installed in parallel to manage the
> > > migration. when I read your earlier mail "porting mailman 2 to 3" I
> > > thought you were talking about porting it to python 3... (there is
> > > also https://github.com/jaredmauch/mailman2-python3 which while
> > > still labelled 'alpha' is very active).
> > > 
> > > mailman2 and mailman3 are not really comparable anyway, mailman3 is
> > > a very different beast and most list admins seem to move to other
> > > software (mlmmj etc) rather than to mailman3.
> > 
> > so let me know which route you'd like to go and I'll try to do the work 
> > for it as time permits. I don't really have a preference as long as we 
> > remove the Python 2 dep which is my only goal.
> 
> I honestly don't know. Maybe a better option would be to remove it
> from ports. Is anyone reading that actually uses mailman from OpenBSD
> ports/packages? Any comments?

Yes, and I'm sure djm@ has it on mindrot as well; however installing and/or
maintaining it outside of ports is not a huge deal if that needs to happen;
however the seeming intent is to remove python2, which would make any install,
ports or otherwise, of mailman (2.x) impossible.

I do believe mlmmj is a likely migration candidate (though missing stuff), and
of course mailman 3.x (but that's an entire beast). If this needs to happen, I
think maybe a shot over the bow at the very least.

Is mailman 2.x the remaining barrier to removing python2?

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