Re: project status

Stephan Richter <[email protected]> writes:

> >Or are you perhaps waiting for mailman2.1? -- which I can't install
> >due to lack of patches for the python email module :-(
> 
> Well, ZMailman expects the Mailman 2.1 interface. No doubt.

Ok I'll subscribe to the mailman-devel list and try to obtain an
updated email module.

> BTW, what people expect from it? 

I want to be able to assign owners/proxy-managers who can activate and
mananage lists without intervention from the overall
managers/sysadmins.

Clients should be able to activate, configure and remove lists,
archives and groups of lists.

Site-owners should be able to customize and localize all screens.

From what I've read on the lists sofar, these expectations appear to
be met just fine by mailman2.1 and zmailman :-)

> I just did the project for fun,
> wanting to replace the current HTML screens with Zope. Also, there are
> possibilities that ZMailman could implement its own archiver or other
> components, but that would be really hard... and I want to wait until
> MM 3.0 for that.

Ok I won't hold me breath then. We run mission critical debian
systems. Given the life cycle of debian I guess it will be a while
before stuff like that will start to show up in the stable releases or
even the testing branch.

First I'll have to setup a demo here in my lab so I can start raising
interest and perhaps allocate some budget and serious development-time
to this project.


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