[Systers-dev] status report GSoC for Systers

[Robin Jeffries]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Anna Granudd <anna.granudd at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
> those of us participating in GSoC 2009 for Systers were asked to send in a
> status report every two weeks, so here's my first.
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> Finally a question. I started setting my dev. env. up using Kubuntu 9.0.4
> and Python 2.6.2 figuring that newer versions of Python and Ubuntu than
> recomended from Systers probably shouldn't cause any problems. Halfway
> through I noticed that the version of Mailman Systers use (2.1.10) wasn't
> compatible with these (apparently a known bug if you google it) so I had to
> start over and install the recomended Ubuntu 8.04 and Python 2.5. No
> problem
> so far, my only question is if there are any plans on updating the version
> on Mailman we use to the newer 2.1.12, which is compatible with the newer
> versions of Python etc? Just out of curiosity (btw, I also noticed how much
> I had missed the older version of Ubuntu so I'm happy being back to this
> anyway :) )


That certainly on our list, but right now, as you will see when you start
fixing bugs, it's a lot of work to update, as there are some fixes that are
not well separated in the code (some because of earlier programmers not
taking this into account, some because none of us have figured out how to do
it).  So it becomes a project in itself (probably a week's worth of work
full time, more if some change is incompatible with what we are doing),
probably something we will do this fall or winter.  We thought that getting
these bugs fixed (and some of the other projects) would get us closer to
being able to merge our changes with mainstream mailman, and then we won't
have this problem each time mailman updates.  (That's the long term goal.)

And, thanks for the status report.

Robin


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