Lars Schimmer writes:
On 27/02/2021 04:02, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
It's not necessary to "keep up" to be very helpful to our users, of course. But I think Brian's document is likely to be the "gold standard" for a while. I understand why Abhilash wants it in the official docs. :-)
If it should be a gold standard, it should mention the default setup of a standard debian system (which is exim4, btw) and not assuming a special setup debian system.
"Gold standard" means it does what it sets out to *really* *well*. "Gold standard" does not mean it does everything everybody wants. In particular, much of the appeal of Brian's guide is that it's how he sets up a Mailman 3 host, and he's proved it's repeatable, many times. Anything that he doesn't use himself doesn't belong in his guide.
We already have a descriptions of Exim (which I wrote the original) and Apache setups in the "official" docs. There's no good reason to treat Debian specially, since we don't distribute .debs ourselves. It's not even clear that we should recommend apt-get mailman! And surely no need, as that is the obvious (but not necessarily best for any given server!) way to set up a Debian Mailman installation. But there is good reason to believe that typical Debian installations will be quite out of date, because most admins prefer to run a server based on stable or LTS distros, not bleeding edge (Debian "sid") or even beta (Debian "testing") distributions, while updates to Mailman continue to be frequent and important to many or even most users.
Regards, Steve