[Mailman-Developers] Hi from a student interested in a GSoC project

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 15, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Elias Assarsson wrote:

>I have had a look through bin/withlist, mm_cfg.py and Defaults.py to get a
>feel for the format of the configuration. Why is bin/withlist relevant for
>configuration migration? In that it is way to learn about configuration?

Yes.

>I guess configuration migration scripts should have tests, e.g. to test if
>some particular MM2 configuration is migrated to the expected MM3 form. If
>this is so, what would be an appropriate way to collect a MM2 configuration
>and the expected MM3 form?

Yes, *all* new code should have tests. :)

You probably should build a MM2 system, work through the site defaults and
create a few mailing lists.  Also build a MM3 system and see what you'd need
to do to convert your MM2 lists to MM3 lists.

-Barry