[Pkg-mailman-hackers] mailman-ssls packaging and massive bugfixing work

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:

> Thanks for your mail. I know of the ssls-patch. Your comments/fixes for
> that I'll leave up to ssls upstream.

OK. One thing I’ve noticed is that unsubscribing then resubscribing
a user (as site admin) doesn’t change their PGP key or unset it,
nor am I (site admin) allowed to change theirs in the WUI. I’ve
been considering to allow site admins to change any user PGP key.

> As you may have notices the pkg-mailman-hackers list is a quiet affair.

Indeed. But many are ;-)

> I've been using a semi-policy for Debian patches to only patch important
> bugs and let everything else be handled by upstream. This is motivated by
> the fact that there's hardly anyone working on Mailman packaging in
> Debian, adn there's quite some legacy in the current packaging, so I'd
> rather not add more maintenance overhead if we can barely keep up with
> what we have.

I totally understand, and this is sensible in that case.

> That said, you're wholeheartedly invited to become a committer on the
> pkg-mailman project, and if you want to build a separate binary package
> that includes the ssls patch you're welcome to do so. I would just like to
> stress again the fact that there's not much maintenance power right now so
> if you add such a thing I would hope that you would maintain it too.

OK. Since I *use* Mailman at work, I can even do that during daytime,
but then, I probably would like to get the feature patches into the
main package. On the other hand, I’ll maintain them then, and I don’t
plan on changing employers any time soon. Considering the number of
bugs in the BTS, this might even be a good thing, as I’m known for
taking on weird things if bored ☺

> Let me know your username if I should add you to the project.

That would be tg.

bye,
//mirabilos
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