On 4/24/06, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 16:21 +0300, Heikki Lampén wrote: > > I'm wondering about this "true virtual hosting" issue and what is > > going to happen to it. > > > > I see there's some talk about Google SoC in the wiki [0]. > > Unfortunately I don't see Mailman in the Google SoC participant list > > [1]. Has Mailman applied as a mentoring organization? The deadline is > > 1st of May. > > True, although I was thinking that if someone wants to do this, we could > do it under the auspices of the Python Software Foundation. There > really is no "Mailman organization" and the latter's SoC project page > does list Mailman as a possibility. Sounds good.
> > Anyway, it'd be awesome if SoC could finish what the vhost branch has > > began. Or is it totally out of the question that such a patch would be > > integrated to 2.1? Even as a branch (that'd be kept up to date with > > 2.1) it could be very useful. > > It's not out of the question, although no way can it go into the > mainline 2.1 branch. Ideally, the work would be done on the Mailman > trunk for 2.2, although I wouldn't be opposed to an "unofficial" 2.1 > patch branch if the volunteers were so motivated. It's too big of > project to go into 2.1 proper though. Fair enough. > > Why or why not should the vhost branch development happen on the same > > subversion repository? In CVS there was the awful branching problem. I > > think Subversion is the most attracting version control system. Then > > again what I think doesn't matter but what you guys think is what > > matters. Of course moving off to another platform is always extra work > > and has to be motivated properly. > > My hesitance is much more the code disruption, upgrade testing, and > support costs involved in pulling this into 2.1. We just can't be > adding new features to 2.1 at this point. What we /really/ need to do > is get 2.2 moving so that we can release it fairly soon (this year, I > hope). > > > Also the usage of JIRA and Confluence should make it even more > > interesting as organizing the project becomes a whole lot easier that > > way. Maybe add a project for the vhost branch. > > > > Maybe I'm just being impatient but as I see it, this vhost stuff > > should really interest a lot of people. > > Definitely. Everyone wants to see it, and it will definitely happen for > 2.2. It would be awesome if a SoC volunteer wanted to take it on and I > would be more than happy to mentor the work. Are you a student and are > you interested in working on it? I'm unfortunately already employed during summer time (would've had been an interesting project). Maybe someone on the list is or knows a promising victim? -- heze [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
