From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AB7AC158086 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2021 22:30:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B45F2BC05D; Fri, 24 Dec 2021 22:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from uriel.iewc.co.za (uriel.iewc.co.za [IPv6:2c0f:f720:0:3:d6ae:52ff:feb8:f27b]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 74D752BC038 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2021 22:30:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [2c0f:f720:fe16:6d00::1] (helo=tauri.local.uls.co.za) by uriel.iewc.co.za with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1n0t4b-0002dM-Ur; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 00:30:01 +0200 Received: from [192.168.42.205] by tauri.local.uls.co.za with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1n0t4b-0007UV-6H; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 00:30:01 +0200 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2021 00:30:00 +0200 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.4.0 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: net-mail/mailman and everything that belongs to it Content-Language: en-GB To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Hanno_B=c3=b6ck?= References: <20211221122342.472e0dc3@computer> From: Jaco Kroon Organization: Ultimate Linux Solutions (Pty) Ltd In-Reply-To: <20211221122342.472e0dc3@computer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-report: Relay access (uriel.iewc.co.za). X-Archives-Salt: 52430d46-36ec-4467-bfe2-2419c5b86bcc X-Archives-Hash: 5aa9255a8505a2b90de6b0679a8ba779 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.) >