I would like to suggest at least considering the use of a Fossil repository as a forum/mailing list replacement. See https://fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/forum.wiki for info or the Fossil forum (https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forum) for a working example.
In this way, the forum/list's history would be contained in a single file served by a single no-dependency binary. No MySQL or other RDBMS needed, only Apache or some other web server in front, and a working sendmail configuration. I would also make some simple changes to the web UI to strip out unneeded features. The only downside I see is it would no longer be possible to post via email. Users could configure their accounts to receive emails per-post or daily digest, but to post you'd have to open a web browser. On the other hand, by using Fossil anyone would be able to clone and sync the entire forum, read it and even respond while offline using their local copy. As to volunteering, I’d be happy to volunteer to set up a temporary test instance on a server of my own if there is interest. Ideally the permanent one would run on PLT-owned hardware sitting behind an IP address that is approved to send email from a Racket-related domain (SPF records &c). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to racket-dev@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/a639503f-c6c4-48cd-997e-8eaa62dbc008%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
