[Mailman-Developers] mailman 3.0 roadmap, feature-parity with mailman 2.x and documentation

[Brian Carpenter]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mailman-Developers [mailto:mailman-developers-
> bounces+brian=emwd.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Barry Warsaw
> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 7:03 PM
> To: mailman-developers at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman 3.0 roadmap, feature-parity
> with mailman 2.x and documentation
> 
> On Apr 29, 2015, at 01:17 AM, shirish wrote:
> 
> >"We aim to release Mailman 3.0rc1 in late April, 2015." - wiki entry
> 
> >What would be nice is if there is some ETA as to when 3.0 will be
released to
> >the general public. Are there going to be another 2-3-4 RC releases
before
> >3.0 is ready ?
> 
> Actually, we just released 3.0 today. :)
> 
> >While this is good to know, is there a matrix of features somewhere which
> >shows features of mailman 2.x vs mailman 3.0 . I am unable to find such a
> >page in the wiki or perhaps I didn't search enough.
> 
> We don't really have this right now.  I think we'll start to fill out the
bug
> tracker with features or fixes that need to be forward ported to Mailman
3.
> Some things you won't miss, like passwords in clear text, monthly password
> reminders, having multiple accounts to manage subscriptions with different
> email addresses, no built-in archive searching, restrictions on naming
lists
> in multiple domains, etc.
> 
> >Lastly, the documentation for 3.0.x seems to be a good way at
> >http://gnu-mailman.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ would be nicer if there
> was a
> >way to generate .pdf from the content therein.
> 
> You can do it from the source tree.  We build the docs with Sphinx and I
> believe it has a PDF option.  We likely won't officially distribute PDFs.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Barry

Hi Barry:

Just to be clear, this is a stable fully working version of Mailman 3.0? I
tried setting up Mailman 3 on a CentOS server about 2 weeks ago and had a
number of issues including listinfo pages not working (404 errors), no clear
directions on setting up users, various bugs such as internal server errors.
The server admin that I had hired informed me there was a number of python
related bugs and he felt Mailman 3 was not ready for production use. 

I am ready to give this another try but I want to make sure that this
version will be a full working version of Mailman 3.

Thanks,
Brian