List archives (was Re: [Actionchix] State of the new website)

[Terri Oda]

On 27-Jun-06, at 1:05 AM, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> Is anyone here on mailman-devel? If so, we could ask if anyone else 
> has arranged something like this, or anything that would help us do 
> so.

I'm on mailman-devel, although to be honest I haven't been reading it 
much lately because I've been too busy to actually do any devel myself. 
   Still, I can answer most of that off the top of my head.

Mailman already has an NNTP gateway, which, as far as I know, works 
well.   We can use this anytime, right now, if we want.  I've never set 
one up, however, and no one else has stepped forwards to say they have.

There are many people who've got mailman->forum things on the go, but I 
don't know offhand if any of them is freely available to us. (My 
impression is that these are usually be one-off specific-site things, 
but my impression may not be correct here, and that doesn't necessarily 
mean we couldn't find someone who'd be willing to share code.)

My feeling, for the moment, is that we should just switch archivers, 
then evaluate some other systems once we see if fixing the archiver 
solves most of our problems.  Minimal work first. :)

My current favourite is http://httpd.apache.org/mod_mbox/ -- I was 
hoping to be able to try this on my personal lists, but the server that 
hosts them is having hardware issues, so that's been put off until its 
replacement is ready.   I'll have a chat with Dancer about just doing 
that for our lists now.  It doesn't actually look overly difficult, and 
we could probably do it without stripping out pipermail, even.

  Terri