[CentOS-devel] RFC (Request for Comments) : future of lists.centos.org (aka centos mailing-lists)

Thu May 11 11:24:55 UTC 2023
Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>

Let's chat about centos mailing lists !

https://lists.centos.org is powered by mailman package, available in 
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)

# 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)

# something else ?

All comments, opinions are welcome and let's discuss it in advance and 
not wait next year when machine will be powered off

Kind Regards,
-- 
Fabian Arrotin
The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org
gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org]
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