Le jeu. 3 juin 2021 à 20:59, Joonas Kylmälä <joonas.kylmala@helsinki.fi> a écrit :
Hi,
On 03/06/2021 16:07, Jonathan Druart wrote:
Should we keep the historical mailing list or move to something modern, like discourse or flarum? Is it something: - we really want/need - we don't want/need - neat we could have
I personally don't have a need for forum type of solution, and I actually prefer mailing lists so I can have all updates from all different projects at one inbox.
I think that the two solutions I suggested can be used as a mailing list.
Currently the lists are not maintained (messages are not reviewed/no moderation), the mailman version is old, looks like there are a lot of email bounding, etc.
Besides the emails bounding issue, the maintenance burden would be the same with forum software, right? Also, regarding this specific case of mailman being outdated, would it be possible to just enable unattended-upgrades (if debian based server) with automatic reboot to solve this?
The problem is that the upgrade from v2 to v3 is not trivial apparently.
About email moderation, I have not noticed getting any spam through this mailing list. If the email is not accepted won't it bounce so if someone wants to send something (like a big file) they can contact via irc or other channels to say there is a problem.
There is work that needs to be done on the server, upgrade + maintenance, and maybe reinstall/move of the server. For instance, on the server: "400 undelivered mail return to the sender", "The user you are trying to contact is receiving mail at a rate that 550-5.2.1 prevents additional messages from being delivered", etc. There are tons like that and it's not good for server's ip reputation. The question is: do we make the work to keep mailman, or do we consider it obsolete and we need something more modern? And I have no idea I will have time to dedicate to this task anyway, volunteers are welcome to help!