On Friday, 26 March 2021 14:19:20 CDT Dan Mahoney (Ports) wrote: > More thoughts on mailman, specifically: > > So, I just went to find an old FB post I made about mailman 2.x: > > === > From the "Load Bearing B****it" department: > Pretty much the entire world is stuck using an EOL'd mailing list manager > (mailman 2.x), which depends on an EOL'd python (2.7). > This includes: > * All the gnu mailing lists > * All of the linux mailing lists at listman.redhat > * all the FreeBSD mailing lists > * all the sourceforge mailing lists > * all the IETF mailing lists > * all of lists.isc.org > * NANOG > === > > That’s an AWFUL LOT of sysadmins, network admins, and coders who looked long > and hard at Mailman 3 and decided “that’s not ready yet”. > > I think, if *nothing else*, tauthon needs to be stapled in for mailman, even > if it lives under /usr/local/mailman/bin or something (and bakes in the > couple of dependencies). > > I know about the archive incompatibility. There *might* be a GSOC project to > fix it. Maybe. Other changes can happen with greater use, but clearly > there’s a first-mover disadvantage here. > I concur. The thought of losing Mailman 2.x fills me with dread.
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