From mark at msapiro.net  Sat Jan  3 20:51:38 2009
From: mark at msapiro.net (Mark Sapiro)
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 11:51:38 -0800
Subject: [Mailman-i18n] Mailman 2.x Roadmap
Message-ID: <PC187020090103115138045396e273ab@msapiro>

Barry has been making wonderful progress with Mailman 3.0 and has just
announced the second alpha release.

This may leave some of you wondering what's happening with the Mailman
2.x series, so this note is for all interested Mailman users,
developers and translators to give an idea of what to expect in
Mailman 2.x in the coming months.

Within the next few days, I plan to release Mailman 2.1.12rc1. This
release contains several minor bug fixes since 2.1.11 and is updated
for compatibility with Python 2.6. It will not work with Python older
than 2.4.

In the absence of "show stopping" bugs, the only changes between this
and the final 2.1.12 release will be translation updates. I expect to
release the final by the end of January.

After January, my focus will be on Mailman 2.2. This branch was
originally intended to be an overhaul of Mailman's GUI, but that work
is stalled and will be deferred to Mailman 2.3 or 3.0. The focus of
Mailman 2.2 will be ongoing maintenance of the 2.x series and several
small new features that have not been added in the 2.1 branch because
of i18n considerations.

I hope to be able to release a 2.2 beta before the end of March, 2009.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan


From mark at msapiro.net  Sun Jan 11 22:01:57 2009
From: mark at msapiro.net (Mark Sapiro)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:01:57 -0800
Subject: [Mailman-i18n] Mailman 2.1.12rc1 Released
In-Reply-To: <PC187020090103115138045396e273ab@msapiro>
Message-ID: <PC18702009011113015709686c2fcb41@msapiro>

I am happy to announce the first release candidate of Mailman 2.1.12. 
 
Mailman 2.1.12 is a minor bug fix and Python 2.6 compatibility release.

The minimum Python for this release is Python 2.4 and it is compatible
with Python through 2.6. The previous Mailman releases are not
compatible with Python 2.6.

See the release notes at
<https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=653108&group_id=103>
for more details. 
 
Mailman is free software for managing email mailing lists and
e-newsletters. Mailman is used for all the python.org and
SourceForge.net mailing lists, as well as at hundreds of other sites. 
 
For more information, including download links, please see: 
 
http://www.list.org 
http://mailman.sf.net 
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman 


Note to translators:

The mailman.pot is up to date in this release and has been merged with
the individual message catalogs. If possible, please review your
translations and submit any changes before the end of January.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan


From mark at msapiro.net  Mon Jan 12 19:39:24 2009
From: mark at msapiro.net (Mark Sapiro)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:39:24 -0800
Subject: [Mailman-i18n] [Mailman-Announce] Mailman 2.1.12rc1 Released
In-Reply-To: <PC18702009011113015709686c2fcb41@msapiro>
Message-ID: <PC18702009011210392404211ebf3cbd@msapiro>

Mark Sapiro wrote:

>I am happy to announce the first release candidate of Mailman 2.1.12. 
> 
>Mailman 2.1.12 is a minor bug fix and Python 2.6 compatibility release.
>
>The minimum Python for this release is Python 2.4 and it is compatible
>with Python through 2.6. The previous Mailman releases are not
>compatible with Python 2.6.


I have discovered a compatibility issue between Mailman 2.1.12rc1 and
Python 2.4. As a result of the Python 2.6 compatibility changes, we no
longer install the email 2.5.8 package in Mailman's pythonlib if
Python's email version is greater.

This creates a problem when Python's email is 3.0.1 which is the Python
2.4 package. There is no problem with the email 4.0.x packages in
Python 2.5+.

The following patch to Scrubber.py works around the incompatibility and
will be included in subsequent 2.1.12 releases.

=== modified file 'Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py'
--- Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py        2008-12-01 04:30:43 +0000
+++ Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py        2009-01-12 17:45:14 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2001-2008 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2009 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
@@ -167,6 +167,9 @@
     # message by a text (scrubbing).
     del msg['content-type']
     del msg['content-transfer-encoding']
+    if isinstance(charset, unicode):
+        # email 3.0.1 (python 2.4) doesn't like unicode
+        charset = charset.encode('us-ascii')
     msg.set_payload(text, charset)


-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan