Re: Had Mj2 Development stalled ... ?

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:51:09AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 2. http://www.mj2.org - links broken to Jason's page at math.uh.edu
>                       - no list archives
>                       - /csf page has broken links to ancient message archives
>                       - does it really still work with Perl 5.005_03??

There are list archives here:

  https://lists.mj2.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr?func=archive-summary-reverse&list=mj2-dev

The just aren't public or pretty.  :-)

FWIW, it seems like something like incron
(http://inotify.aiken.cz/?section=incron&page=about&lang=en) would
make an easy way to hook mhonarc (or whatever) into the built-in mj2
archives.

> 3. has / is anyone looking into actually doing a "release" instead of 
> snapshots?

If only I had the time...

> 4. Packages: I just checked FreeBSD ports, and there is no Majordomo2 (since 
> that    requires a release ... but still pushes the old Majordomo1 (no wonder 
> Mailman is making such headway) ... are there any packges out there for other 
> operating systems?

Right now Majordomo2 isn't packaging-friendly at all.  That needs to
be the top priority to actually have a release, IMHO.

On that note, off the top of my head, here's my list of things I'd
like to see done, in no particular order.

  * Make things packaging-friendly, including tools for
    adding/removing domains (without using "make").
  * SQLite support, maybe switching to that as the default database.
  * An easy-to-use tool for switching between database backends and
    upgrading database backends.  (If there is a way to handle old
    versions of BerkeleyDB, I'd like to know what it is.)
  * Move the "official" VCS to something public.  Maybe look at
    git/svk/etc.

I'm sure there's more...

> Steve Pritchard ... if its about resources, I can provide a VPS, install a 
> MediaWiki, etc ...

It's not (just) about resources for me.  I haven't done more due
simply to lack of time.

That said, if you don't mind setting all that up, I say go for it.
I'll help as much as I can.

Steve
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