On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 8:13 AM Stephen Smoogen <ssmoogen at redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 07:25, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote: > >> 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) >> >> > I am expecting that the mailman2 will go EOL with the rest of the python2 > stack in > > Application StreamRelease DateRetirement DateRelease > 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 > (sorry html got added so if it causes email issues the end of life is Jun > 2024) [1] > > > > >> # 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. > We've been working through it. I need to talk to Kevin Fenzi about fixing the half-retired state mailman3 is in, and then we can start branching the whole stack for EPEL 9 and get it built. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20230511/11ac4329/attachment-0002.html>