[Mailman-Users] ANNOUNCING: GNU Mailman 3.0

[Stéphane Wirtel]

Congrats !
On 29 Apr 2015, at 0:00, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> Twenty years ago, I attended the first Python Workshop at NIST with 
> about 20
> other old school Pythonistas.  Earlier this month I attended PyCon 
> 2015 in
> Montreal.  PyCon is always exhilarating, but this one was incredibly 
> special
> for me personally, because my son was on spring break and joined me 
> for the
> first half of the conference.
>
> Both the Python language and its community have grown a little bit 
> <wink> in
> the intervening years, but what hasn't changed is our love of the 
> language,
> and the truly amazing people we share that love with.  The Python 
> community
> really is one of the very best open source communities on the planet.
>
> The best community inside that great Python family has to be the GNU 
> Mailman
> team.  They're all smart and cool, fun to hang out with, and fun to 
> hack with.
> With diverse backgrounds, each and every one are good friends and 
> valued
> technical peers.  As has been the case for the last few years, we've 
> sprinted
> on Mailman 3, getting lots of great work done, but never quite getting
> something we were satisfied enough with to release.  The first alpha 
> of
> Mailman 3 was released a little over 7 years ago.
>
> And so I'm here --and on behalf of Abhilash, Aurélien, Florian, John, 
> Mark,
> Stephen, Sumana, Terri, our GSoC students, and all the great people 
> who have
> contributed over the years-- to proudly announce the official release 
> of GNU
> Mailman 3.0, code named "Show Don't Tell".
>
> Mailman 3 is really a suite of 5 tools:
>
> * The core, which provides the mail delivery engine, the unified user 
> model,
> moderation and modification of email messages, and interfaces to 
> external
> archivers;
>
> * Postorius, our new Django-based web user interface for users and 
> list
> administrators;
>
> * HyperKitty, our new Django-based web archiver, providing rich access 
> to the
> historical record of mailing list traffic;
>
> * mailman.client, the official Python bindings to the core's REST API;
>
> * mailman-bundler, a set of scripts to make it easy to deploy the full
> suite inside Python virtual environments.
>
> What's new about Mailman 3?  Well, lots!  Some highlights include:
>
> * Backed by a relational database;
>
> * True support for multiple domains, with no cross-domain mailing list 
> naming
> restrictions;
>
> * One user account to manage all your subscriptions on a site;
>
> * The core's functionality exposed through an administrative REST+JSON 
> API;
>
> * All passwords hashed by default, and no monthly password reminders!
>
> * Users can post to lists via the web interface;
>
> * Built-in archive searching!
>
> and more.  Tons more.
>
> There will be things you love about Mailman 3, and things you don't 
> like.
> You'll glimpse great possibilities and glaring holes.  You'll be 
> excited and
> frustrated.  Such is life with an all-volunteer free software project.
>
> For the things you like, and the exciting possibilities, we encourage 
> you to
> experiment, to do wacky things we haven't thought of, integrate it 
> with your
> own tools, or just carefully go about deploying a Mailman 3 system.  
> Tell us
> how you're using it!
>
> For the things you don't like, we invite you to join us.  Come to the 
> mailing
> list <mailman-developers at python.org> and talk with us.  Submit bug 
> reports and
> pull requests.  Help us close the gaps and make Mailman 3 better.
>
> Whether your interests are for Internet RFCs, web site development,
> operations, or you just want to find a fun Python project to hack on 
> with cool
> people, as they say, contributions are welcome.
>
> See the release notes, as well as links to download each component:
>
>  http://wiki.list.org/Mailman3
>
> You probably want to start with the bundler and let it grab and 
> install all
> the other parts.
>
> More information is available at:
>
>  http://www.list.org
>  http://wiki.list.org
>  http://launchpad.net/mailman
>  #mailman on freenode
>  mailman-developers at python.org
>
> Happy Mailman Day,
> -Barry & the Mailman Cabal
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