On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:55:15 -0500 Greg Rivers via freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Friday, 26 March 2021 14:19:20 CDT Dan Mahoney (Ports) wrote: > > More thoughts on mailman, specifically: > > > > So, I just went to find an old FB post I made about mailman 2.x: > > > > === > > From the "Load Bearing B****it" department: > > Pretty much the entire world is stuck using an EOL'd mailing list > > manager (mailman 2.x), which depends on an EOL'd python (2.7). This > > includes: > > * All the gnu mailing lists > > * All of the linux mailing lists at listman.redhat > > * all the FreeBSD mailing lists > > * all the sourceforge mailing lists > > * all the IETF mailing lists > > * all of lists.isc.org > > * NANOG > > === > > > > That?s an AWFUL LOT of sysadmins, network admins, and coders who > > looked long and hard at Mailman 3 and decided ?that?s not ready > > yet?. > > > > I think, if *nothing else*, tauthon needs to be stapled in for > > mailman, even if it lives under /usr/local/mailman/bin or something > > (and bakes in the couple of dependencies). > > > > I know about the archive incompatibility. There *might* be a GSOC > > project to fix it. Maybe. Other changes can happen with greater > > use, but clearly there?s a first-mover disadvantage here. > I concur. The thought of losing Mailman 2.x fills me with dread. > Me too. Short term, I shall have it in a non-updated jail. _______________________________________________ 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"
