On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 03:55:47PM +0200, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
> What's the deal with maintaining mailing lists on Fedora these days?
> 
> For years I've used mailman (first mailman2, now mailman3) on Fedora to
> administer mailing lists.  In mailman3, you also need postorius to provide a
> web interface to users and hyperkitty to provide mail archive support.
> 
> On Fedora 35, mailman2 isn't available anymore, so that's when I switched to
> mailman3.  The original Fedora 35 did not have postorius, but that became
> available later.  Hyperkitty on the other hand is not available on fedora
> 35.  I use an rpm that I built myself.
> 
> On Fedora 36, mailman3 can be installed, but both postorius and hyperkitty
> (there it is in the repository) cannot.  They both depend on a too old
> version of django.
> 
> On Fedora 37 (I know, not released yet, so any complaints should go to the
> testing list) none of the packages can be installed since they all depend on
> python 3.10 and F37 will come with 3.11.  The packages are actually the
> unmodified F36 packages.
> 
> Do people use mailman3 on Fedora?  If so, how?

Sadly those packages are difficult to keep working and they have fallen
behind. :( I'm sure the maintainers would welcome help though if you can
work on them or help test fixes.
> 
> Should I invest time in getting it to work in a python virtual environment?
> And how would that work with SELinux?

Well, up to you, but it would be nice to contibute to the packages and
get them working again. 

> This very mailing list (users@lists.fedoraproject.org) is managed with
> mailman3, but does the system on which it runs run Fedora?

Nope, it's running on a RHEL7 vm. ;( 

We would very much like to move it to a newer version however, and 
if the Fedora version became available/working again we could look at
that. 

kevin

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