Re: [Launchpad-users] Why is the URL of launchpad user mailman interface resolving to something else.

[Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 2, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Karl Fogel wrote:

> (By the way, as far as I can tell, upstream isn't very active anymore;
> we'd likely be maintaining a patch against it.  The most recent  
> release
> is 2.6.16, from June of 2006.  There is still a small amount of CVS
> commit activity, and dev@ list activity, so maybe there will be  
> another
> release someday, but... it's been three years.  See
> http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/mhonarc-commits/ and
> http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/mhonarc-dev/ for details.)

I think there's a general dearth of activity with open source  
archivers.  Perhaps the rise of Google, and public archive services  
like mail-archive.com have killed enthusiasm for such work, which is a  
shame IMO.

There has been talk recently within the Mailman community of splitting  
Pipermail out into a separate project again, and devoting some  
resources to improving it.  AFAIK, it's the only Python-based archiver  
around, and while it's got it's problems, many people like it.  It  
deserves to be a separate project and I think with a bit of love, it  
could be a very usable replacement for our current MHonArc-based  
archiver.  Plus it might give us the opportunity to develop some  
interesting archiver tie-ins I've been thinking about.

-Barry

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