Hi Per Sad not to have you in Nuremberg, but I think/hope we will do such meetings on a regular base in future. (Something we should discuss during the meeting - my proposal would be a quarterly based meeting in the beginning and see how much we need later.) On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:22:41 +0200 Per Jessen wrote:
the mlmmj mailing list driver is really a bit antiquated. Our current setup has a few things that need fixing, which I could do, but I would much rather spend the effort on switching to mailman instead.
In the past, there were some vulnerabilities in Mailman - mlmmj was considered more "secure" (which also might be related to the smaller user base).
Setting it up would be fairly straight forward, I've done it more than once, and lists could be slowly migrated for testing and customizing.
The main point is IMHO the transparency for the users: * Mailing list archives should be at the same location (and searchable) - but as we use Mhonarc in the backend already, I do not see a reason why this should not be possible * Mailing list management (the foo+subscribe@opensuse.org etc) might become interesting, as mailman handles (un)subscriptions a bit different. At least for an announced period of time, I would recommend to support the "old mlmmj format" as well.
If you know mailman, the advantages are obvious, but I'm putting it up for discussion in case there is some (unknown to me) reason why we are using mlmmj.
One really significant advantage of mailman over mlmmj is that other people use it too. The mlmmj user community is kind of small.
Questions: * are you speaking about the new Mailman 3 version - or the old fashioned, soon to be obsoleted, version 2? (I know that 2.1.23 is considered stable at the moment, and I know the "history" of mailman 3 very well - but I would recommend the 3x version to a) show how future driven openSUSE is and b) to avoid one migration step in the near future) * Setting up a VM for you for testing the new setup should not be a big deal. Should we already setup a new machine for you ? Requirements? With kind regards, Lars -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: heroes+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: heroes+owner@opensuse.org