[Mailman-Developers] RELEASED: GNU Mailman 3.0 beta 1 and Postorius 1.0 alpha 1

Andrea Crotti andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 17:11:47 CEST 2012


On 03/24/2012 02:00 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> Hello Mailman enthusiasts!
>
>      Use the key, unlock the door
>      See what your fate might have in store...
>
> Building on the excitement and amazing progress at our sprints at Pycon 2012,
> I am very happy to announce the availability of GNU Mailman 3.0 beta 1, code
> named "The Twilight Zone".
>
> After nearly four years of design, discussion, and development, we can now see
> a clear path to a final release.  I thank everyone who has helped us get here,
> by participating on the mailman-developers mailing list, the bug tracker, in
> private conversations, and code contributions, both to Mailman itself and all
> the great projects it builds on.  Special thanks go to our recent sprinters,
> Andrea Crotti, Florian Fuchs, Toshio Kuratomi, Daniel Mizyrycki, Terri Oda,
> Mark Sapiro, and Stephen Turnbull.
>
> While you do want to be careful using 3.0b1 in production, I hope that you
> will get a copy of the code and run it through its paces.  Several people are
> known to be running real mailing lists using the code base.  At this point,
> the feature set is frozen, as is the database schema.  We'll use the schema
> migration machinery to do any schema changes from here to the final release.
>
> I'm also ecstatic to announce the first alpha release of Postorius, our new
> official name for the Django-based Mailman 3 web user interface.  The name was
> suggested by core developer Florian Fuchs in honor of a bass hero of both of
> ours, Jaco Pastorius.  Postorius 1.0 alpha 1 is code named "Space Farm".
>
> Postorius is in large part based on the great work of Anna Senarclens de
> Grancy and Benedict Stein who worked on a new Mailman web ui during their
> Google Summer of Code projects in 2010 and 2011.  This alpha version connects
> to Mailman 3.0's REST API to add and edit lists and domains, as well as to
> moderate messages.  It uses Django's auth app and Mozilla's BrowserID for
> authentication (a list of the current features is contained in the NEWS file
> of the package).  Apart from the current state there are many more ideas left
> for the upcoming releases.  There is a great team working on the web ui as
> well as on a new archiver, so stay tuned, and come join us!
>
> You can download GNU Mailman 3.0b1 from Launchpad or the Python Cheeseshop:
>
>      https://launchpad.net/mailman
>      http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman
>
> Postorius 1.0a1 is available from Launchpad and Cheeseshop as well:
>
>      https://launchpad.net/postorius
>      http://pypi.python.org/pypi/postorius
>
> The GNU Mailman documentation is available online at:
>
>      http://packages.python.org/mailman/
>
> You can submit bug reports to GNU Mailman and Postorius at:
>
>      https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman
>      https://bugs.launchpad.net/postorius
>
> GNU Mailman and Postorius are released under the GNU General Public License
> version 3 or later.
>
> Enjoy!
> -Barry
> (On behalf of the entire GNU Mailman development team)
>

Great news Barry, but just one thing, I checked now on list.org and the 
GNU Mailman
website and there is no mention of this release.. is that on purpose?


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