"Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:
Given that a former and current Mailman developer both work for DC, there's a darn good chance that it will become easier and easier to integrate Mailman and Zope.
Cool :-)
I have plans for Mailman 3.0 to rewrite the underlying database code so that e.g. ZODB could be plugged in instead of the homegrown, hardwired marshaling approach. I also have plans for writing interfaces so that authentication and memberships can be handed off to external (to Mailman) processes, e.g. Zope and CMF. And it would be cool if the UI could be pluggable too so that things like Presentation Templates or other Zope UI mechanisms can be used.
Really, the grand plan for Mailman 3.0 is to sort of turn it inside out, so that it's a package of functionality that can be plugged into all sorts of other frameworks. Then there'll probably be a "Mailman classic" framework so that you can continue run it standalone if you want.
What are the chances of Mailman becoming a 'Zope App'? Incidentally, on of the things I'm hoping for with Swishdot is to make it more of a cross between a weblog and a mailing list so I wonder if there's an opportunity for collaboration here? cheers, Chris