I have maybe just a little bit to add to what Abhilash has said.
On Jul 20, 2017, at 14:47, ddw David Wilson <ddw.256@gmail.com> wrote:
- A design/plan from an inside expert perspective stating costs, time and resources to implement the plan, incorporating crowdfunding to pay for project.
- As a backup incentive to the crowdfunding plan might be the offer of an expert to set up a system for each significant amount donated, say US$1,000, such as might be accomplished by an SSL session on the target computer/server after the user has specified all necessary detail as required in a template.
We do actually have a Mailman donation fund, set up through the Free Software Foundation. After an initial seed, and some occasional funds from GSoC, we have a little bit of money that we’ve used to help GSoC students attend Pycon, where most of the in-person hacking happens.
https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=22
I encourage everyone who loves Mailman (of any version) to donate! You help us and the FSF.
In summary, I guess what I am requesting is an overview forecast by half year period and out for the next two years?
Please share the big picture?
I would encourage everyone who wants a turnkey Mailman 3 system to help Abhilash and others to test and contribute to his docker image project. That’s really the officially sanctioned best way to deploy Mailman for those who don’t want to “roll their own”.
There are also folks in Debian working on getting all the packaging set up for Mailman 3. Right now there are some dependencies that are working their way through the process first. Hopefully, we’ll also start to see Mailman 3 become available on other Linux distros too.
Each of the subprojects has their own rough set of plans, and the best way to help is through the various Gitlab projects under this umbrella:
For Core, I’ve started to milestone some issues and merge proposals to 3.2.
One big project that I’d love to see gain more traction is Lemme, our authenticating REST proxy. We just haven’t had much collective resources to spend working on it.
https://gitlab.com/mailman/lemme
Cheers, -Barry