Re: [Evolution] Discourse and the situation for Mailman lists hosted by Gnome.org

[Ángel <angel 16bits net>]

On 2022-10-23 at 16:53 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > What I can't understand is that all the Fedora lists, some of which
> > I
> > am on, continue to be run via Mailman, and presumably by staff that
> > work for RedHat. This doesn't look to me like a RedHat decision.
>
> I've posted a question to the Fedora Users list:
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users lists fedoraproject 
> org/thread/XXRBCEM3UQSLPPITR5L27HRPER3HZZHM/
>
> Note that the list also has a web interface (HyperKitty), which is
> different from Discourse. Hooray for consistency.
>
> poc

hyperkitty is part of mailman3.

[ mailman3 has a modular approach, hyperkitty is the module which shows
the archives and lets you interact with them. In theory you could use a
different archiver than hyperkitty while keeping mailman core (but
hyperkitty is the only implementation so far). ]

While mailman3 interface was designed to be more forum-like, trying to
make it attractive, it's still a good old mailing list under the hood.

I understand that gnome no longer wants to support mailman2.
However, I would have expected to upgrade to mailman3. Yes, it is a
major version upgrade. And yes, gnome has lots of mailing lists.
Nonetheless, it *IS* a supported upgrade, and many other organizations
(including ones with loads of mailing lists) have been able to do it.