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

[kanika vats]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Terri Oda <terri at zone12.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

I have few questions:

1)When or in what circumstances will a list owner want to disable Dlist
feature of a dlist enabled list ?

2)I have heard that Mailman 3 will also be using Database and Storm in place
of  pickle files,exactly for what purpose,I still have to find out.

Has Mailman 3 included this feature of migrating the regular lists of old
Mailman (using pickle files) to use database?

If yes then maybe the way they have implemented the migration part may give
us a good hint of how to handle messages that are send to regular lists ,how
to make the regular lists to use a database updated with info of all the
threads and messages in the list archives after migration.Besides the hint
part it will become important to us to make this migration feature available
while working on to integrate the dlist feature with Mailman 3.

If no then probably we can concentrate on integrating the existing Dlist
feature to Mailman3(as Mailman people are themselves thinking Mailman3 to be
used in case of new installations).
In that case our web interface option whether to create a list as a Dlist or
not is sufficient for the administrator to decide whether he/she wants the
dlist feature or not.

Ans yes migrating the regular lists to dlists is very imporatant wishlist
item,if we  plan that other organizations like Mozilla/Gnome etc use our
Dlist feature.


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Best Regards
Kanika Vats