12 May
2022
12 May
'22
1:03 p.m.
On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 11:38 -0400, E. William Horne via 44net wrote:
On 4/21/2022 11:17 AM, Bryan Fields via 44net wrote:
Here's my $.02
I worked very diligently on providing updates and code that made MM2
better, and you can find my name in the MM2 NEWS release file. I've
operated MM2 lists for over 20 years now so I feel that I have a good
idea on the state of MM. MM3 actually started development 12+ years ago
when Barry Warsaw was hired by Canonical (Ubuntu) to make MM3 work for a
large organization with multiple levels of mailinglists. Barry's work
eventually turned into what we know as MM3 today, even though Barry is
no longer involved. Bits of MM2 backend configuration made it's way
into MM3 via work done by Mark Sapiro. However the MM3 frontend(s) is
wholly new.
The problem(s) that I have with the way MM3 works is that it's great and
scalable for very large organizations where there are many users who are
on many different lists. That said, MM3 sucks (imho) for single lists
like this one and the ones I operate. Even today, I feel that MM3 is
still evolving and having growing pains whereas MM2 still just works
well (yes, even with fully supported python2 from Ubuntu, Debian,
Redhat, etc). Python2 is fully supported on Ubuntu Focal (20.04) until
2025.
You can find the complete MM3 docs here:
https://readthedocs.org/projects/mailman/
I don't know which version of MM3 AMPR runs, so I can't point you do the
specific version of docs.
I'm happy to help with any MM2 questions.
73,
-Jim P.
mm3 is different
Yes, it's very definitely different: overwhelmingly so, in my case. If
anyone on here can do so, please tell me where to find documentation
about the differences between Mailman, Mailman 2, and Mailman 3. I'm
especially interested in finding out what advantages the later releases
offer compared to the former, and sources of HOWTO info for hams like me
whom are not yet acquainted with the latest open-source environments.