Hi,
All this is very helpful. Thank you.
And it leads me to think about timelines.
I'm aware that the freeze for Debian 9 (Stretch) is scheduled for the end of this year, and that we can expect it to be released sometime in mid-2017. (Don't quote me on that though ;) And I'm not sure about Centos, I didn't see a Mailman 3.0 package there or in Fedora.
But is there any chance that a Mailman 3.0 or 3.1 package is going to make it into current release cycles?
From what I can gather, we're very early to the table here, and nothing's going viral yet. As a Debian user, I certainly get the bit about "selling no wine before its time", so I completely understand long development cycles.
But we're in the evaluation/design phase of this project and from the providers point of view it would be helpful to know if they should wait a few months for Mailman 3.0/3.1 or just go ahead now with 2.1.x and upgrade to 3.1 at some point down the road. While their list admins are experienced, they are new to Mailman and the fewer burps the better. Although they may very well take a run at 3.0 now and see how things work out. We just need some sort of timeline to consider.
I'm not looking for firm dates of course, best guesstimates will do.
Thanks,
b.