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[Chris Withers]

"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