Running Mailman on big FOSS projects - Mozilla

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 17 December 2012 19:04, Michael Burns <burnsie at mozilla.com> wrote:
> Oh hello there Infrastructure@,
>
> Are there any plans to use the HyperKitty[0] project at lists.fp.o in the foreseeable future? To that end, has there been any serious attempts at migrating lists.fedoraproject.org to Mailman v3 from v2?

There are plans in doing so, but we have not tried moving to mailman 3
at this time. Our plans to approach that are in the spring after
Fedora 18 is out the door.

> Do you use stock Mailman 2 rpm, if not, are the patchesets that you use available? Likewise, can your puppet module(s) for mailman (similar to [1]?) be made available, even with identifying information removed? Mozilla is in the process of auditing their puppet modules for an eventual public release, so I realize this can be a tricky topic with regards to security.

We use stock mailman with a bunch of hot-patches to remove the ability
for people to choose passwords. Due to the lack of encryption and the
fact that people reuse passwords too much we changed the templates for
where the password is chosen and just let mailman do the choosing for
us.

We really don't have much in the way of puppet and mailman. It
basically makes sure the package is installed and then hotfixes the
files over the templates. I will look to what we have and see if it
contains anything sensitive. It will probably later this week before I
can get it done and approved.

> [0] https://fedorahosted.org/hyperkitty/
>
> [1] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1584
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> Michael Burns
> Mozilla IT
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge at gmail.com>
> To: "Michael Burns" <burnsie at mozilla.com>
> Cc: "Fedora Infrastructure" <infrastructure at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 4:59:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Running Mailman on big FOSS projects - Mozilla
>
> On 17 December 2012 17:54, Michael Burns <burnsie at mozilla.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I help run the Mailman / {mail,lists}.mozilla.org forum at Mozilla and am curious if you (whomever maintains lists.fedoraproject.org) would be interested in a chat about Mailman and HyperKitty?
>>
>> You're one of the few Mailman users that have a similar workload to worry about, so I'm curious how you've got things setup.
>
> Hi what would you want to talk about and what about?
>
>> Cheers!
>>
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>> Michael Burns
>> Mozilla IT
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> Stephen J Smoogen.
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> Linus Torvalds
> "Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh
> so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I
> recommend pleasant. You may quote me."  —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
"Don't derail a useful feature for the 99% because you're not in it."
Linus Torvalds
"Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh
so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I
recommend pleasant. You may quote me."  —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd