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CentOS 7 , itself going EOL next year.
There is no packaged (yet) mailman3 stack (more components than simple
mailman 2 stack).
Options :
# use mailman2 package from RHEL8
That means (in theory) that we can just reinstall the machine with
RHEL8, and use the package that is available in AppStream repository:
mailman.x86_64
3:2.1.29-12.module+el8.5.0+13466+327eb9f3.2
Normally that should be more or less (to be tested though) transparent
migration, but as that module is still relying on python2 itself, we
don't know when it will itself go EOL in RHEL8 (BaseOS should be 10y but
apps in AppStream can have a shorter TTL)
I am expecting that the mailman2 will go EOL with the rest of the python2 stack in
| Application Stream | Release Date | Retirement Date | Release |
|---|
| Python 3.9 | May 2021 | May 2024 | 8.4.0 |
| Python 3.8 | May 2020 | May 2023 | 8.2.0 |
| Python 2.7 | May 2019 | Jun 2024 | 8.0.0 |
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# migrate to mailman3
Clearly much more work to do including see if the mailman3 stack
maintainer can branch to epel9 and then we can reuse it.
Also time to investigate how to import previous archives from mailman2
to mailman3 but should be doable (needs time to investigate and a PoC)
I know Fedora people have been working on this but that there seems to be not enough 'Round Tuits'[2]for it to get done. I do not know what the sticking points are but I think several of the people are also on the CentOS Stream Hyperscale team so maybe they can say.