[Mailman-Developers] Should we move to Bazaar?

[Barry Warsaw]

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On May 5, 2007, at 4:08 AM, Terri Oda wrote:

> I, like Mark, have little to say about dvcs (I've only passingly used
> Bazaar) but I'm happy to learn whatever I need to know.

Excellent.  I think we have consensus for a switch if/when we find a  
dvcs we like.

> However, I would like to say that I hope this discussion doesn't
> dissuade people from doing that UI work right now.  Please please
> please don't wait on this, 'cause if we wait for the Next Big Thing
> we're going to wind up with no updated UI, once again.  Not that I'm
> a cynic. ;)

Here is my current thinking, and I'd like to know what you all think  
about this.  Andrew created the mondernize_21_webui branch and  
applied the xhtml and css patches to it.  We could conceivably keep  
these changes very conservative, i.e. just u/i and *possibly* the top  
3 new features.  Then we'd release this as Mailman 2.2 and rename the  
really advanced work Mailman 3.0.

I know I've gone back and forth on all this numbering stuff, but if  
we try really really really hard to keep our focus, I think we could  
get out a 2.2 that looks and acts a lot like 2.1 but with a better  
look and feel, as well as reducing a couple of big pain points.

>   Terri (who, uh, maybe, might sorta have some unfinished admin
> documentation that got left alone 'cause it seemed like MM3 had to be
> just around the corner... three years ago. ;)  )

Guilty as charged. :)

Thoughts?
- -Barry

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