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<div>Python's mailing lists use mailman 3:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.python.org/community/lists/">https://www.python.org/community/lists/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>What is the problem with the UI ? It seems far, far more useable than pipermail and hyperkitty feels like a forum.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If upgrading isn't possible, well then I guess bad luck. The mailman focs doesn't make it look that hard (is it skipping over OSM server specific steps that make the process harder?)<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/migration.html">https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/migration.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div>IpswichMapper</div><div>-- <br></div><div> <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>14 Dec 2020, 18:45 by tom@compton.nu:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>It's not going to happen.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Virtually nobody uses mailman 3 with the exception of Fedora<br></div><div>and I know from using it there that the UI is a disaster.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Also it's not packaged for Ubuntu and it's far more complicated to deploy than what we have.</div><div><br></div><div>Don't think of mailman 3 as an upgrade - it's basically a<br></div><div>totally different product.<br></div><div><br></div><div>There is talk of a change, but it won't be to mailman 3.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Tom<br></div><div><br></div><div>On 14/12/2020 18:42, ipswichmapper@tutanota.com wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>Okay thanks, I'll contact him on github. I don't havd mailman administration experience, or that much coding experience for that matter. I was just suprised that we are stuck with 10+ years old cluttered pipermail when hyperkitty is actually useable.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>14 Dec 2020, 18:37 by jm@liotier.org:<br></div><div><br></div><div> From looking at the Mailman Chef cookbook at<br></div><div> https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/tree/master/cookbooks/mailman<br></div><div> <https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/tree/master/cookbooks/mailman>,<br></div><div> Tom Hughes is the person you should ask. If you have mailman<br></div><div> administration experience, maybe you could make it happen.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> On 12/14/20 7:18 PM, ipswichmapper--- via talk wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was wondering if all the lists on<br></div><div> https://lists.openstreetmap.org <https://lists.openstreetmap.org><br></div><div> could be switched to Mailman 3 and hyperkitty (the newest archiver).<br></div><div><br></div><div> Currently, pipermail is used to archive, and its UI is *unusable*.<br></div><div> Comparatevely, hyperkitty is a lot more like a forum.<br></div><div><br></div><div> From my experience, the mailing lists are *far more active* than<br></div><div> the forum, so it would be good to have it searchable & more<br></div><div> accessible (the only downside to this is newer users might use the<br></div><div> mailing list now. I don't think this is a downside, but I<br></div><div> understand why others would think so).<br></div><div><br></div><div> Also, Mailman 3 still gets updates, while *mailman2 is on<br></div><div> maintainance mode and won't recieve feature updates.*<br></div><div><br></div><div> I strongly recommend that the mailing lists are upgraded to<br></div><div> mailman3 with hyperkitty: this will make the mailing lists so, so<br></div><div> much more useable.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Tom Hughes (tom@compton.nu)<br></div><div>http://compton.nu/<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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