[Mailman-Developers] Welcome to our Google Summer of Code Students!

[Adam McGreggor]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:02:58AM -0400, Terri Oda wrote:
> I hope you'll all join me in welcoming our new Google Summer of Code  
> students:

Awesome news. 

> * Benedict Stein (benste on IRC) will be working to complete the GSoC  
> work Anna did last summer on the django-based web UI for Mailman 3.0.

'Complete' sounds interesting. Is that pretty achievable? I can't
believe it's almost been a year.

> * Drew Rodman will be converting pipermail to use SQL (rather than  
> pickles) for storing data and creating an upgrade script to help users  
> migrate their archives to the new format.  He's even hoping to get  
> Stable URLs working by the end of the summer!

Was the plan to use SQLite? Or the choices (and it should be a
choice) of MySQL / Postgres?

> * Dushyant Bansal (dushyant on IRC) will be working on the interface of  
> the archives, integrating work from Yian and Priya's GSoC projects last  
> summer and getting it all ready to go for Mailman 3.

Nifty.

> I'm really excited to have all these great projects and great students!

You're not the only one.

> While the students do have a set of official mentors (Barry, Florian,  
> Anna and me), you're all encouraged to help out throughout the summer.  
> The end goal is to have some fully integrated awesomeness, so don't be  
> shy if you've got questions, suggestions, etc.


My suggestions from last year are still pertinent ;o)

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> If you've been lurking here wondering how to get involved with Mailman  
> 3, now might be a great time: we've got mentors who've already set aside  
> time to be involved this summer, and we've got students who could  
> benefit from having more people involved in development effort over the  
> next few months.  For example, we discovered while our students were  
> writing patches that we don't have a great description of the Mailman 3  
> install process, so if you want to install it and write up your  
> experiences on the wiki (or just in a blog post we can link to!), that's  
> a great place to start!

Is it too early to start thinking about Operating System/Distro
packagers/maintainers, for MM3?

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