list.org upgrade

Quick heads up that the owners of the list.org domain will be upgrading the
machine today.  This should only affect www.list.org and perhaps email
 <at> list.org.  It will not affect the wiki or the mailing lists.

The downtime should be minimal and the IP addresses will remain the same after
the upgrade.

In the meantime, you can always use the various www mirrors:

 * http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html
 * http://mirror.list.org/
 * http://mailman.sourceforge.net/

Cheers,
-Barry

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Mailman 2.1.15 final released.

I am happy to announce the final release of Mailman 2.1.15. This
release is identical to the 2.1.15rc1 release except for the version
number and the inclusion of a missing part of the HTML installation
manual.

Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.6 is recommended.
This release should work with Python 2.7, but has not been tested with
that version.

This release includes minor security enhancements, new features and
bug fixes. See the Changelog at
<https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/2.1.15> 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, please see:

http://www.list.org
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman
http://mailman.sourceforge.net/

Mailman 2.1.15 can be downloaded from

https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman/

Mailman 2.1.15rc1 released

I am happy to announce the first release candidate for Mailman 2.1.15.

Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.6 is recommended.
This release should work with Python 2.7, but has not been tested with
that version.

This release includes minor security enhancements, new features and
bug fixes. See the Changelog at
<https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/2.1.15rc1> 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, please see:

http://www.list.org
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman

Mailman 2.1.15rc1 can be downloaded from

https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/

It is anticipated that the 2.1.15 final release will be on or about
June 13. Bugs found between now and then will be fixed if possible,
but I hope that most if not all changes between now and June 13 will
be i18n updates. Please send any updates to the templates and/or
message catalogs in the 2.1.15rc1 release directly to me no later than

Fw: [Mailman-Developers] Congratulations to our GSoC Students!

Congratulations to our new GSoC students!

Begin forwarded message:

Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:57:51 -0600
From: Terri Oda <terri <at> zone12.com>
To: mailman-developers <at> python.org, sophron <at> latthi.com,  Aamir Khan <syst3m.w0rm <at> gmail.com>, alexander <at> sulfrian.net
Subject: [Mailman-Developers] Congratulations to our GSoC Students!

The announcement from Google went out on Monday, so I'm a bit slow, but I'd like to congratulate the three
students who will be working with GNU Mailman as part of Google Summer of Code 2012:

Aamir Khan will be working on improving Hyperkitty.

Alexander Sulfrian will be working on NNTP access to the archives.

George Chatzisofroniou will be working on metrics, integrating his MailmanStats package with Mailman 3.0.

Congratulations to all of you, and thank you to all our other talented applicants this year.    It was a very
tough field and we were very lucky to get three slots allocated to us by our umbrella organization, the
Python Software Foundation.  I believe this is the largest number of students we've ever had!

We're now in what Google calls the "community bonding period" where we get to know each other and get things
set up.   Students: this would be a great time to post a short email to mailman-developers reminding
everyone about what you're planning to do this summer (Google only gives the short abstract in their
public list).  I know the mentors are pretty excited about the projects, and this gives everyone else a
chance to get excited too!

Coding starts on May 21st.  So be prepared: this is going to be one amazing year for Mailman!

I18n help needed for Mailman 2.1.15 release.

Now that Mailman 3 is in beta, I would like to spend more time working
on it. To that end, I am planning to release Mailman 2.1.15 soon. This
release fixes quite a few bugs and adds some needed new features. See
the NEWS file at
<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/view/head:/NEWS> for
details.

This release contains several new message strings and a template
modification, none of which have been translated. So, if you are a
language champion or just an interested user or anything between, I need
your help.

There is a new feature to request a password reminder from the private
archive login page. This necessitated an addition to
templates/<language>/private.html. I have added the new information to
all the templates, but it is in English. If you can help translate this
into your language, get the private.html template from your language
directory at
<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/files/head:/templates/>,
and send me a translated template.

Also, all the message catalogs have been merged from the new mailman.pot
and there are fuzzy translations and untranslated strings as a result.
If you can help with fixing these, get the current
LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po file from your language directory at
<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/files/head:/messages/>
and send me an updated version.

If you can help with this, please do it before the end of April. If you
want to help but aren't sure what to do, let me know and I'll try to

RELEASED: Mailman 3.0 alpha 8

I am very happy to announce the release of the eighth alpha for Mailman 3.0,
code named "Where's My Thing?".  This is the last planned alpha release, as I
want to work toward the first beta in order to meet my goal of an 11/11/11
final release (of the core engine at least).

If you've been holding off looking at Mailman 3, I invite you to do so now.
Once beta 1 is released I will not be adding any new features.  I do hope to
put up a few live test lists soon, so stay tuned.

There have been a large number of fixes and new features, especially in the
REST API.  My thanks go to Stephen Goss who has contributed greatly to this
release, with bug reports, wish list items, patches, and merge proposals.
Full details of what's new in 3.0a8 is available here:

    http://tinyurl.com/6yxgclf

The tarball can be downloaded from Launchpad or the Cheeseshop:

    https://launchpad.net/mailman
    http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman/3.0.0a8

The full documentation is also online:

    http://packages.python.org/mailman/

Enjoy,
-Barry

wiki.list.org license has been renewed

I think I've managed to get our Confluence license renewed, so those of you
with write privileges to wiki.list.org should be able to save pages again.  If
not, please let me know.

I haven't heard much about the Moin conversion lately, but hopefully that will
happen before the next time our license runs out.

-Barry

RELEASED: Mailman 3.0 alpha 7

I am very happy to announce the release of the seventh alpha for Mailman 3.0,
code named "Mission".  Here are some of the highlights of a release with lots
of new stuff (a more detailed NEWS.txt file excerpt is below).

* Significant improvements to the subscription model.  Users can now subscribe
  to mailing lists with either an explicit address or a "preferred" address.
  When a user changes her preferred address, all of her subscriptions
  automatically track this change.  All this and more have also all been
  exposed to the REST API.
* New rules for member and non-member moderation.  This effectively ports and
  updates Mailman 2's moderation rules to the Mailman 3 framework.
* Support for SMTP AUTH added.
* The default password encryption scheme can be defined in the configuration
  file, and all passwords are by default encrypted (using SSHA1).
* 'bin/mailman status' command added to provide command line status of the
  master queue runner process.
* 'bin/mailman info' now prints the REST API root url and credentials.
* Basic Auth support for the REST API was added. (thanks Jimmy Bergman)
* Python 2.7 is supported.

I'm really excited about this release because it will provide a great baseline
for our Google Summer of Code students.  If you've been putting off taking a
look at Mailman 3, I encourage you to download it and play with it.  My goal
is for a final release on 11.11.11 so there will not be too many more alphas.
Now is the best time to influence our design decisions.

The tarball can be downloaded from Launchpad or the Cheeseshop:

    https://launchpad.net/mailman
    http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman

Call for volunteers: convert wiki to Moin

For many years, Atlassian has provided the GNU Mailman project with free (as
in beer) wiki hosting on their proprietary platform.  This has included a free
license, free hosting, and free support.  We are very grateful to them for
this, as our wiki contains lots of useful information that help you, the
members of our Mailman community.

The current wiki was offered to us at a time when we didn't really have any
other options.  However, GNU Mailman is free software and a GNU project, so it
is not appropriate for us to be hosting our wiki on non-free software.  We
have offers for hosting a new wiki on Moin <http://moinmo.in/> a very
excellent free wiki engine written in Python.

The major hurdle is actually finding the resources to do a high-fidelity
conversion from the current wiki to Moin, retaining as much of the current
feature set, layout, and history as possible during the migration.  None of
the core Mailman developers has time to do this, though we will support the
effort.  We tried, but were unable to get a slot in this year's Google Summer
of Code for the conversion work.

Now the FSF has put out a call for volunteers:

    http://tinyurl.com/3gnaurt

If you'd like to help GNU Mailman in this way, please contact the FSF at
info <at> fsf.org.

We will provide as full a data dump from the current wiki as possible, and
guidance for requirements, etc., and the Moin developers have graciously made
themselves available to help with the technical details.  Your conversion work
will of course be free software itself, so it will help Moin and other free

GNU Mailman in the 2011 Google Summer of Code

Hi everyone,

We're going to be participating in the Google Summer of Code again this year,
but this time, under the Python Software Foundation's banner.  Here's our wiki
page for GSoC ideas, mentors, and students:

http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Google+Summer+of+Code+2011

and the PSF page with more details for signing up, etc.

Application deadline for students is Friday, April 8, so please hurry!  I
believe student registration opened up today.  Feel free contact us in
mailman-developers <at> python.org, or #mailman on freenode IRC.

-Barry

Mailman Security Patch Announcement

An XXS vulnerability affecting Mailman 2.1.14 and prior versions has
recently been discovered. A patch has been developed to address this
issue. The patch is small, affects only one module and can be applied to
a live installation without requiring a restart.

In order to accommodate those who need some notice before applying such
a patch, the patch will be posted on Friday, 18 February at about 16:00
GMT to the same four lists to which this announcement is addressed.

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