All,
Over the past years (as early as
2014, I think), there have been many times we've seen the need to move
off Mailman2: it's implemented in python2.7 which has long seen the end
of its life.
The alternative has always been
Mailman3, which is the technological successor of Mailman3, but a
complete rewrite. As early as its initial release in 2015, I've been
eyeballing moving to it.
Back then, there was no migration
path from 2 to 3, but it was on the roadmap, which made the choice to
move or stay easy: wait for the release which makes it possible.
A
lot of time has gone by since. The situation gradually worsened,
because the migration to Mailman3 became a blocker to upgrade the
operating system on
common-lisp.net:
python2.7 was phased out, which means the mailman2 list software
wouldn't run on it anymore (that is, without significant maintenance
burden to maintain our own python2.7 install).
Long
story short: Yesterday, I installed the containers which allow us to
run mailman3 in an isolated environment. There's a lot of tweaking to be
done, but I've been able to configure mailman3 to run alongside of
mailman2, which is a good start.
As of right now, I've started migrating to mailman3, which I'm doing in steps:
- basic validations
- archives of defunct lists
- active mailman2 lists with configuration and archives
Before
going the route of migrating active lists, I may do an assessment of
the activity of mailing lists, asking owners of mailing lists which have
gone without activity for 5 years, whether there's still an active
interest.
Regards,
--
Bye,
Erik.
Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.