[Mailman-Developers] Mailman 3 production setup testbed

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Terri Oda writes:

 > What would be a good default directory to have in the docs if I want to 
 > update them to suggest you start somewhere other than your home directory?
 > 
 > /opt/mailman
 > 
 > is probably the most appropriate one according to the LSB.

+1 It's the only system hierarchy that the FHS lets us decide on the
layout.

To fully conform with the FHS, use /opt/mailman requires us to
register "mailman" with LANANA (http://www.lanana.org/).  N.B. Neither
the FSF nor GNU is currently registered, so no, we don't belong in
something like /opt/gnu/mailman.  (The rationale for that lack is
pretty clear -- RMS would blow a cranial artery at the suggestion that
GNU is an optional component of a Linux system. :-)

Personally, I'd like to get out of the main hierarchies; splitting
things across /etc, /usr and /var is annoying.  So /opt/mailman looks
really good to me.

Steve