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Date:      Fri, 24 Apr 2020 09:32:03 -0400
From:      Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
To:        Kurt Jaeger <pi@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "mandree@freebsd.org" <mandree@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mail/mailman v3?
Message-ID:  <E0A0D488-3FEC-48D8-9425-08432321719C@langille.org>
In-Reply-To: <20200424130424.GJ39563@home.opsec.eu>
References:  <FD5DA99A-4B99-4730-BD8E-7079416A56BB@langille.org> <20200424130424.GJ39563@home.opsec.eu>

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> On Apr 24, 2020, at 9:04 AM, Kurt Jaeger <pi@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
> Hi!
>=20
>> With mail/mailman being Python 2.7 (which is end-of-life), and =
mailman 3 being Python 3 compatible:
>>=20
>> Do you know of any plans to port Mailman 3?
>=20
> There's already a PR about that:
>=20
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D225543

Now 2 years old I see. Good start.=20

> The patch itself is fine, but we need run-tests.
>=20
> 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-users@mailman3.org/ =
<https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/>;

They are distinct (ignoring the hostname differences) so keeping the
old alongside the new should be safe.=20

> And, speaking as one of the postmaster@ team:
> As lists.freebsd.org uses mailman2, we need this!
>=20
> 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.

=E2=80=94=20
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/







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