I apologize for the late chiming in here. I'd like to propose the XMLRPC extension for Mailman 2.2 that has been developed over the last two years. I have in the last couple months updated the patch to 2.1.9 and it's code impact is really quite minimal; it's really quite standalone. And for those looking for ways to interact with the Mailman database from other applications, it provides the necessary interfaces for administration and moderation functions.
Thoughts? -jag Barry Warsaw wrote: > Now that we've successfully navigated the switch to Bazaar, it's time > to lay out plans for future Mailman releases. I've talked to several > people about what to do about Mailman's future and I'd like to take > this opportunity to describe my thoughts and get your feedback. > First some background. > > Mailman 2.1 is (shockingly) four and a half years old, having been > initially released on 30-Dec-2002. The last release in the series, > 2.1.9 was made almost a year ago. In the meantime, Mark and Tokio > have been doing a great job maintaining the 2.1 branch, with several > important patches in the tree now that will eventually become > 2.1.10. The problem of course is that we can't add any new features > to the 2.1 family <wink>, so we should be thinking about a new major > release. > > I've been making good progress on the SQAlchemy/Elixir version, which > will finally get rid of pickles and put Mailman on a Real Database > (tm). It's been clear to me for a while that this branch will have a > unified user database. It simply makes no sense to build the > database back-end without once and for all fixing this design > constraint. I've always said that the unified user database will be > in Mailman 3, and thus this branch is indeed called "Mailman 3.0". > > I've been slowly building things back up from the ground floor. The > basic data model is in pretty good shape and I'm taking a religious > test-driven approach to making things work again. But the branch > still needs a lot of work, and I have no ETA for Mailman 3.0. > > In the meantime, Andrew Kuchling and others have volunteered to work > on modernizing the Mailman web u/i, and Terri recently started a > thread discussing updates to the archiver. I think it makes sense to > bless these efforts, towards the goal of releasing them in Mailman > 2.2. I intend to create an official Mailman 2.2 branch in bzr where > these efforts can land as they mature. My hope of course is that > we'll also be able to use much of this new code for Mailman 3. > > I'd like to keep the changes for 2.2 focused on the web u/i and > archiver, with a small number of additional features to be > determined. Mailman 2.2 should see no changes to the basic > architecture or 'database'; we'll continue to use pickles by default > for Mailman 2.2. While I won't rule out other new features, I want > to be very picky about those that are accepted for 2.2, and would not > feel bad at all if we rejected or deferred until 3.0 most of those > proposed. Criteria for other 2.2 features must include minimal code > impact with a high degree of reliability and stability. > > I plan on updating the wiki pages to reflect this thinking, but I > would like to get feedback from y'all about the plan. It would be > awesome if we could see a release of Mailman 2.2 some time in late > 2007 or early 2008. > > Comments, question? > > -Barry > _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/jag%40fsf.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
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