[oS-heroes] Comment about some mail list software that might be of interest
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just read on linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org mail list about the creation of a new mail list, on a new server at https://lists.linux.dev. And a comment said: "using something a bit more modern than Majordomo for list management," I don't know what is that new software. The pages there mention "Sphinx 1.2.3 & Alabaster"; the former is a Python Documentation Generation, so that's not it; Alabaster is a theme for the same. There is some mention of "public-inbox" I thought that keeping track of mailing list software could be interesting to us :-) - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE Leap 15.4 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHYEARECADYWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY6SsWBgcY2FybG9zLmUu ckBvcGVuc3VzZS5vcmcACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VE7QCeKOpSMHjGwf6/yH+eJMJ7VvWC fRQAn2fetvEriIluo2lMZSS25xxhSX+U =Iltm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Am 22. Dezember 2022 20:13:28 MEZ schrieb "Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org>:
"using something a bit more modern than Majordomo for list management,"
I don't know what is that new software. The pages there mention "Sphinx 1.2.3 & Alabaster"; the former is a Python Documentation Generation, so that's not it; Alabaster is a theme for the same.
There is some mention of "public-inbox"
That is their full stack right now, they are using sphinx (yes, the documentation software) for listing the mailing lists, and https://public-inbox.org/README.html which does indeed require some form of index, the trial instance public-inbox lists on their page otherwise just uses apache auto index feature. LCP [Jake] https://lcp.world/
Carlos E. R. wrote:
I thought that keeping track of mailing list software could be interesting to us :-)
They are using mlmmj :-) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (11.9°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes (2016 - present) We're hiring - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Heroes
On 2022-12-23 10:38, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
I thought that keeping track of mailing list software could be interesting to us :-)
They are using mlmmj :-)
That doesn't match with the comment that they are migrating to something more modern than Majordomo :-? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2022-12-23 10:38, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
I thought that keeping track of mailing list software could be interesting to us :-)
They are using mlmmj :-)
That doesn't match with the comment that they are migrating to something more modern than Majordomo :-?
From your quote: "a bit more modern".
Majordomo stems back to 1992, current release is from 2000. The latest mlmmj is from 2017, the first release was 2004 or 2003. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (11.4°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes (2016 - present) We're hiring - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Heroes
On 2022-12-23 11:59, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2022-12-23 10:38, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
I thought that keeping track of mailing list software could be interesting to us :-)
They are using mlmmj :-)
That doesn't match with the comment that they are migrating to something more modern than Majordomo :-?
From your quote: "a bit more modern".
Majordomo stems back to 1992, current release is from 2000. The latest mlmmj is from 2017, the first release was 2004 or 2003.
Exactly, it does not match what _they_ said, in my understanding. Maybe the old server is mlmmj, and the new server is something else? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2022-12-23 11:59, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2022-12-23 10:38, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
I thought that keeping track of mailing list software could be interesting to us :-)
They are using mlmmj :-)
That doesn't match with the comment that they are migrating to something more modern than Majordomo :-?
From your quote: "a bit more modern".
Majordomo stems back to 1992, current release is from 2000. The latest mlmmj is from 2017, the first release was 2004 or 2003.
Exactly, it does not match what _they_ said, in my understanding.
The text you quoted said "a bit more modern". Clearly mlmmj is exactly "a bit" more modern than majordomo, about twenty years if you count the latest release.
Maybe the old server is mlmmj, and the new server is something else?
It seems to be quite clear that a) the old list server is majordomo, on vger.kernel.org and b) the new one is mlmmj on lists.linux.dev, I subscribed. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (11.6°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes (2016 - present) We're hiring - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Heroes
On 2022-12-23 13:49, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2022-12-23 11:59, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2022-12-23 10:38, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
I thought that keeping track of mailing list software could be interesting to us :-)
They are using mlmmj :-)
That doesn't match with the comment that they are migrating to something more modern than Majordomo :-?
From your quote: "a bit more modern".
Majordomo stems back to 1992, current release is from 2000. The latest mlmmj is from 2017, the first release was 2004 or 2003.
Exactly, it does not match what _they_ said, in my understanding.
The text you quoted said "a bit more modern". Clearly mlmmj is exactly "a bit" more modern than majordomo, about twenty years if you count the latest release.
Maybe the old server is mlmmj, and the new server is something else?
It seems to be quite clear that a) the old list server is majordomo, on vger.kernel.org and b) the new one is mlmmj on lists.linux.dev, I subscribed.
Oh :-( Thank you for checking, even if it is a cold shower ;-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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