[okfn-help] Does anyone like Mailman?

Wed May 18 09:12:56 UTC 2011

My feeling is switching from Mailman (if we decide to do it) is not a
priority. What I meant at the meeting last week was can we have a very
basic custom page instead of the standard alphabetical list of mailing
lists - e.g. one in which the lists were ordered in some custom way
such as okfn-announce at the top (with description), okfn-discuss
(with description), then Working Group lists, then regional lists,
etc.

Adam: do you know if this kind of thing is possible? Also do you know
what kinds of features are being touted for next version of Mailman?

J.

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Adam McGreggor <adam at amyl.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 05:35:47PM +0200, Carsten Senger wrote:
>> Another alternative is sympa [1][2]. I choose it as a mailman replacement
>> some years ago to get more features (mainly more options for mailinglists
>> and more than two administrative users per list).
>
> Administrative users in Mailman are defined as "whomsoever knows the
> administrative (or site) password, or has write-access to the Mailman
> files".
>
>> If the main problem is the layout of mailman pages we can also try to
>> improve that with less work.
>> Even so mailman does not offer any customization story, we can change
>> mailman to provide a friendlier listinfo page [3], e.g. sorted into
>> categories, and a nicer layout. This may require some manual work
>> for new lists from time to time, but not too much.
>
> There's an article I can dig-out, if there's interest, in how to
> define a localized template for new lists, and for existing lists.
>
>> A second option is to put a theming proxy ([4] or [5]) in front of mailman
>> that wrap the mailman output into an okfn layout, and write a better
>> listing.
>
> A the third option, could be to wait until the end of the summer,
> when, with a bit of luck, Mailman 3 will be ready for deployment.
>
> (disclaimer, see my contribs on wiki.list.org, and mail.python.org)
>
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