On Fri, Apr 24, 2020, at 9:32 AM, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Apr 24, 2020, at 9:04 AM, Kurt Jaeger <p...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > >> With mail/mailman being Python 2.7 (which is end-of-life), and mailman 3 > >> being Python 3 compatible: > >> > >> Do you know of any plans to port Mailman 3? > > > > There's already a PR about that: > > > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225543 > > Now 2 years old I see. Good start. > > > The patch itself is fine, but we need run-tests. > > > > This means: If you want to help, > > - use that patch, > > - build mailman3, > > - and install it somewhere and > > - test all the use-cases that you can think of > > - then write some docs on how to move an existing mailman2 site > > to mailman3 > > I'm guessing that's over and above what I found at: > > https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/migration.html > > > > - and give ideas how to handle list archives > > *especially* keeping the URLs identical (!) > > I think the existing archives are static HTML. I have some archives dating > back to 1999: https://www.unixathome.org/adsl/ > > There might be some server-side rewrites or aliases to ensure that this > URL always works, before and after mailman3: > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2020-April/118352.html > <https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2020-April/118352.html> > > Let's compare 2 and 3 lists: > > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/ > <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/> > > https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-us...@mailman3.org/ > <https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-us...@mailman3.org/> > > They are distinct (ignoring the hostname differences) so keeping the > old alongside the new should be safe. > > > And, speaking as one of the postmaster@ team: > > As lists.freebsd.org uses mailman2, we need this! > > > > postmaster@ has not yet decided if we really want to move to mailman3, > > so we are open to other options. The mail archive is the biggest hurdle 8-( > > Yes, we can't lose those. I have my own archives to support.
I see the mailman lists themselves are now on Mailman 3: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-annou...@python.org/thread/HHQN7V6NY7G5CTOSC3WBU7VXW5KEBGVO/ -- Dan Langille d...@langille.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
