[Mailman-Developers] Mailman Suite beta: what's left?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Ian Eiloart writes:
 > On 30 Oct 2013, at 13:33, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

 > > Repeating what I already wrote for completeness here: Migrating and
 > > then going back all at once is not necessary.  You can migrate bit by
 > > bit, although it may require a little bit of manual fiddling if you
 > > get to the point of installing both on a production server.  
 > 
 > The tricky bit here is the continuity of the web interfaces. If a
 > list manager is used to going to lists.example.com/Mailman/listname,
 > and they have that bookmarked, then they’ll want to keep going to
 > that same place.

Sure, and I don't blame them.

I could have been more careful in expressing myself.  I didn't really
mean that you could do it in dribs and drabs, rather that you could
start with a test list that the kind of beta tester who uses git to
get betas wouldn't mind being on, move on up to a few hard-core techie
lists whose members understand "beta", and only when people are
satisfied that those are working, then do the rest.  And at each stage
it's reversible without losing data -- but not necessarily at zero
cost to users, or to you.

Whether that's good enough for you is something you'll have to
decide.  I just wanted to make it clear that if you *had* a working
Mailman 2 installation you can revert to it.

 > I’m also nervous about breaking migration through the archives.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about HyperKitty to help you there.
I suspect that the HyperKitty guys have paid about the same amount of
attention to consistency across migration as the Postorius folks have,
and it matters more there because who knows what people might have
bookmarked?