On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 03:55:47PM +0200, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > What's the deal with maintaining mailing lists on Fedora these days? > > For years I've used mailman (first mailman2, now mailman3) on Fedora to > administer mailing lists. In mailman3, you also need postorius to provide a > web interface to users and hyperkitty to provide mail archive support. > > On Fedora 35, mailman2 isn't available anymore, so that's when I switched to > mailman3. The original Fedora 35 did not have postorius, but that became > available later. Hyperkitty on the other hand is not available on fedora > 35. I use an rpm that I built myself. > > On Fedora 36, mailman3 can be installed, but both postorius and hyperkitty > (there it is in the repository) cannot. They both depend on a too old > version of django. > > On Fedora 37 (I know, not released yet, so any complaints should go to the > testing list) none of the packages can be installed since they all depend on > python 3.10 and F37 will come with 3.11. The packages are actually the > unmodified F36 packages. > > Do people use mailman3 on Fedora? If so, how? Sadly those packages are difficult to keep working and they have fallen behind. :( I'm sure the maintainers would welcome help though if you can work on them or help test fixes. > > Should I invest time in getting it to work in a python virtual environment? > And how would that work with SELinux? Well, up to you, but it would be nice to contibute to the packages and get them working again. > This very mailing list (users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) is managed with > mailman3, but does the system on which it runs run Fedora? Nope, it's running on a RHEL7 vm. ;( We would very much like to move it to a newer version however, and if the Fedora version became available/working again we could look at that. kevin
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