[Mailman-Developers] VM for Mailman development

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 19, 2012, at 05:02 PM, Terri Oda wrote:

>On 03/19/2012 03:14 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>> At this point, I don't know whether the best approach is look for a
>> more complete development box for Vagrant or figure out how to
>> provision the basic Vagrant box with what I need or forget Vagrant and
>> install directly in VirtualBox or go with a dual-boot.
>>
>> Anyway, it's going to be interesting to figure this out.
>
>Incidentally, how much interest would there be in having a Mailman-developer
>VM (say, for VirtualBox) around and easy to download?  Some modern distro,
>appropriate dev tools, and a checkout of moderately recent code, maybe even
>ready to run with instructions on the desktop or something?  It seems like it
>might be a nice thing to hand out to prospective GSoC students as well as
>Mark. ;) The Systers folk made one a few years ago for 2.1 dev and maybe it's
>time for an updated version?

+1 is an understatement. :)

-Barry