OK guys, what's really going on here?
Stephen and Mark, you are both thoughtful writers and crucial members
of the Mailman team. Jim, you have made a generous offer that seems
to have the support of the Mailman 2 user community, at least.
Is this about turf? Is there something about Jim's proposal that
requires resources (money, proprietary code, prestige, etc.) from the
GNU Mailman group? I really can't see a zero-sum game here, unless
you are genuinely concerned that the continued viability of MM2 would
be a threat to MM3.
I have a little experience here. In 1979 an IBM programmer developed
Rexx, which became the lingua-franca for all IBM operating systems.
Internally, IBM developed an O-O version of Rexx which was available
only on OS/2. In 1997, after many years of negotiation, IBM donated
one of its proprietary products to an open-source project for the
first time. I was the president of the Rexx Language Association and
established the ooRexx Project to port it to Linux and care for it.
In 2011, IBM gave us NetRexx, Rexx for the Java virtual machine. We
now also support BSF4ooRexx, which is the full ooRexx for the JVM.
These are three quite diverse codebases, each with their
contributors/committers and project-level discussion groups, but there
is quite a bit of cross-team communication and collaboration. Is there
any reason why this can't be the case with Jim and whatever team he
can assemble? I can see that it won't immediately lift the entire
burden of MM2 off of Mark's shoulders, but it's a better start (and
example to set) than simply declaring EOL on MM2 and leaving thousands
of admins in the lurch.
What am I missing?
-Chip-
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