[Pkg-mailman-hackers] What about listadmin?

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Hi Petter,

On Mon, April 25, 2016 19:43, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> Dear mailman team in Debian.
>
> You probably are aware of the listadmin package[1], which to me is the
> brother of mailman in Debian.  It work by scraping the mailman web pages
> and emulate a web browser.  But it has not seen much updates the last
> few years, while mailman has changed its web interface.
>
> Did you consider taking the listadmin package under your wings and keep
> it up to date with the latest version of mailman?

Thanks for the suggestion. However, the current Mailman team is very low
staffed. I basically just make sure that the mailman package itself is
updated periodically, but there's currently no manpower to do anything
more.

In fact, I think the top priority for anyone working on Mailman in Debian
is to get mailman3 packaged. Some effort has been done (see #799292) but
it looks stalled at the moment.

Nothing wrong with listadmin per se, I just don't see the current team
taking it on given recent activity levels.


Cheers,
Thijs