On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:02:58AM -0400, Terri Oda wrote: > I hope you'll all join me in welcoming our new Google Summer of Code > students:
Awesome news. > * Benedict Stein (benste on IRC) will be working to complete the GSoC > work Anna did last summer on the django-based web UI for Mailman 3.0. 'Complete' sounds interesting. Is that pretty achievable? I can't believe it's almost been a year. > * Drew Rodman will be converting pipermail to use SQL (rather than > pickles) for storing data and creating an upgrade script to help users > migrate their archives to the new format. He's even hoping to get > Stable URLs working by the end of the summer! Was the plan to use SQLite? Or the choices (and it should be a choice) of MySQL / Postgres? > * Dushyant Bansal (dushyant on IRC) will be working on the interface of > the archives, integrating work from Yian and Priya's GSoC projects last > summer and getting it all ready to go for Mailman 3. Nifty. > I'm really excited to have all these great projects and great students! You're not the only one. > While the students do have a set of official mentors (Barry, Florian, > Anna and me), you're all encouraged to help out throughout the summer. > The end goal is to have some fully integrated awesomeness, so don't be > shy if you've got questions, suggestions, etc. My suggestions from last year are still pertinent ;o) http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamamyl/4484703864/ > If you've been lurking here wondering how to get involved with Mailman > 3, now might be a great time: we've got mentors who've already set aside > time to be involved this summer, and we've got students who could > benefit from having more people involved in development effort over the > next few months. For example, we discovered while our students were > writing patches that we don't have a great description of the Mailman 3 > install process, so if you want to install it and write up your > experiences on the wiki (or just in a blog post we can link to!), that's > a great place to start! Is it too early to start thinking about Operating System/Distro packagers/maintainers, for MM3? -- "Saying that road tax should be spent on transport is like saying that alcohol duty should be spent on pubs." _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9