[Mailman-Developers] Let's try to package mailman3 in Debian!

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Simon Hanna writes:

 > Actually mailman-core is fully functional all alone.

That's not really true.  Sure, you can telnet to the REST port and
speak REST by hand, but that's hardly pleasant.  At a minimum, you
need mailmanclient.  (There will be alternatives, there was a GSoC
project to provide a client that integrates with Node.js.  But at the
moment that's not production-ready.)

Also, all this talk may be somewhat premature, as at present there's
no authentication in the REST protocol, so everything needs to be on
the same host.   Andrew Stuart's authenticating proxy will help with
that, but AFAIK it's not integrated yet.  It may be worth waiting for
that (and/or Mailman 3.1 with the migration story) before doing betas
of the Debian package(s).