Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: net-mail/mailman and everything that belongs to it

[Jaco Kroon <jaco@uls.co.za>]

Hi Hanno,

We've decided to for the time being shelf Mailman completely.  We're
just about done (should go live with test clients this afternoon)
implementing an alternative that we've built in-house to more accurately
accommodate for our use-case in any case.

I would recommend proceeding to last-rite Mailman and related packages.

Kind Regards,
Jaco

On 2021/12/25 00:30, Jaco Kroon wrote:
> Hi Hanno,
>
> I've started looking at this mess.  And a mess it is.  To the point,
> where for our somewhat "subset of what mailman provides" requirements
> I'm contemplating rather cooking an in-house solution (have done similar
> in the past, but none of these really provide everything we require),
> but will get back to you.
>
> In the current state mailman3 as it is in tree I don't think it's usable
> in any sensible way (Unless I'm really missing something), so if I go
> another route I recommend we last-rite it and move on.  If I do pick it
> up on it, then the problem is solved either way.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Jaco
>
> On 2021/12/21 13:23, Hanno Böck wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm no longer using mailman personally, thus I'm not interested in
>> maintaining it any more.
>>
>> The mailman packages currently in portage are the mailman 3 split
>> packages, which involve multiple packages providing the functionality,
>> plus a large number of dependencies. (Unfortunately with the switch
>> from mailman 2 to 3 upstream decided not only to move from python 2 to
>> 3, but also to make the whole thing far more complicated and involve
>> far more dependencies...)
>>
>> If you're interested in maintaining this please add yourself to the
>> metadata.xml of these packages:
>>
>> dev-python/django-allauth
>> dev-python/django-appconf
>> dev-python/django-compressor
>> dev-python/django-extensions
>> dev-python/django-gravatar2
>> dev-python/django-haystack
>> dev-python/django-picklefield
>> dev-python/django-q
>> dev-python/python3-openid
>> dev-python/rcssmin
>> dev-python/robot-detection
>> net-mail/django-mailman3
>> net-mail/hyperkitty
>> net-mail/mailmanclient
>> net-mail/mailman
>> net-mail/mailman-meta
>> net-mail/postorius
>>
>> If noone steps up maintaining this I'n not entirely sure what to do
>> with it, maybe just remove everything? (Including the python
>> dependencies that aren't used by any other package I guess.)
>>