[Mailman-Users] Auto-approval patch

[Adam Nielsen]

>> And I have now upgraded Mailman again to 2.1.13 and reapplied the 
>> auto-approval patch, however I am not sure whether I need to do anything 
>> with version numbers.
> 
> The short answer is you need to run config_list with the
> "mlist.data_version = 96" input on only those lists which you created
> with Mailman 2.1.13 before you applied the patch. Probably this is no
> lists so you don't need to do anything.
> 
> The long answer is the patch adds a new list attribute
> subscribe_auto_approval. Lists created without the patch do not have
> this attribute, and this will cause exceptions when the attribute is
> referenced by the patched code.
> 
> Mailman has a mechanism for updating old list configurationson the fly
> and adding missing attributes and in cases like upgrading 2.0 to 2.1
> even refactoring old attributes into new ones. This mechanism is
> triggered by the list's data_version being less than the current
> schema. So setting the data_version of a list to 96 when the current
> schema is 97 will cause Mailman to invoke the versions.py updating
> process on the list the next time it is loaded.
> 
> In your case, this will do no harm, but it isn't necessary unless you
> have a list or lists that were created without the patch and not
> previously updated.

Thanks for the detailed reply!  I confirmed with grep (just to be safe) 
that all the lists already had the subscribe_auto_approval value, so I 
left them as is and so far all seems well.  The UI picks up the value in 
those fields so that's good.

Thanks again for the quick response!

Cheers,
Adam.