[Mailman-Developers] MM3 testing report and beta timelines

[Geoff Mayes]

Barry already answered many of these questions in response to a previous post I sent to mailman-users.  Thank you Barry!  I'm going to copy the relevant parts of Barry's response here to save other's time in responding:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailman-users-bounces+gmayes=uoregon.edu at python.org
> [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+gmayes=uoregon.edu at python.org] On
> Behalf Of Barry Warsaw
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 12:09 PM
> To: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead
> of Sympa (from Majordomo)

> As for mm3 release, well, I think now that I'll be giving a talk at Pycon 2012 on
> it, I *have* to release it before then!  There are two blockers, that I am
> attempting to solve before going into beta.  1) the REST API needs an
> authentication/authorization framework; 2) we need some kind of schema
> migration approach.  Come on over to mailman-developers@ if you want to
> participate.
> 
> I know there is at least one site using mm3 in production today.  I have some
> patches that need to be applied to improve the API performance, but I'm
> confident the core engine is pretty solid.
> 
> Nothing can replace actual field testing under real world conditions, but I'm
> pretty confident about the core engine.  As I mentioned above, one way or
> another it has to go to beta before Pycon. :)
> 
> -Barry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailman-developers-bounces+gmayes=uoregon.edu at python.org
> [mailto:mailman-developers-bounces+gmayes=uoregon.edu at python.org]
> On Behalf Of Geoff Mayes
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 11:52 AM
> To: mailman-developers at python.org
> Subject: [Mailman-Developers] MM3 testing report and beta timelines
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering how stable/reliable MM3 is at this point.  Does anyone
> know (subjectively or objectively) how much testing it has received in the
> wild?  How much internal testing has it gone through apart from the
> wonderful unit tests I've read about?  According to Barry's alpha8 release
> announcement, it sounds like now is the time to start using it, so does that
> mean you all, as developers, consider it stable and ready to be put into
> production by large organizations?
> 
> What are the hopes and/or realistic plans for the beta period and GA?
> 
> Very curious, and thanks for any info,
> 
> Geoff Mayes
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