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Barry Warsaw | 29 Apr 2011 17:45

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
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Barry Warsaw | 29 Apr 2011 23:31

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
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