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[Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Dustin, thanks for starting the conversation here.  Of course, I'm no
> longer on the Launchpad team, so I can't speak to resources or timelines.  My
> primary "free time" hacking these days is on Mailman 3 and I made some good
> progress over the holiday break toward my goal of integrating it with
> Launchpad (e.g. I actually got list creation working through MM3's REST API).
> I did end up getting side-tracked on some yak-shaving but I'm going to try to
> make another spike on integration soon.
>
> One thing is important to understand though: while Mailman comes with a
> bundled archiver (called Pipermail), Launchpad does not use it.  Launchpad
> uses MHonArc primarily for the (configurable) ability to retain stable URLs
> when the archives are regenerated from scratch.  This is a long standing
> deficiency in Pipermail.

Another possibility is to move from a static-file archiver to just
delivering views on the messages dynamically, which would likely make
a lot of things easier; we've been investigating highly scalable db's
- Cassandra in particular - that would offset any scaling concerns.

-Rob