[Systers-dev] GSoC Bug Fixes and Mailman setup in Ubuntu 9.10

[Terri Oda]

Robin Jeffries wrote:
> Mozilla has expressed interest in using the dlist feature.  They have
> hundreds of lists.  I don't know how many they would move to dlists, but
> they aren't going to want to delete an existing list and reconvene it as a
> dlist.   So that's an important use case for changing an existing (and
> active) list to dlists -- even some testing corner cases; what happens when
> someone replies to a message that wasn't part of a dlist conversation? (I
> have no idea what the right answer is)

I think it was GNOME, but maybe Mozilla asked too?  GNOME is definitely 
interested.

Migration from regular mailman mailing lists to dlists would be *very* 
important for any existing project who wanted to use them.  I believe 
GNOME's lists have many thousand users per list, and hundreds of lists 
-- migrating to newly created lists could be very irritating and even a 
show-stopper to using the dlists feature.

Educated speculation on my part: I think many larger projects would make 
use of the dlists feature if it were available and migration were easy. 
  Enough that it might be possible to champion it as a feature to add to 
Mailman 3.  If we were to go that route, we would need to have a 
migration path for enabling dlists on regular lists, and we might also 
wish to have a path for disabling dlists if the list owner no longer 
wanted them.  That might be getting ahead of ourselves, but it's 
something to keep in mind.

  Terri