Python 2.7 removal outline

[Greg Rivers]

On Friday, 26 March 2021 14:19:20 CDT Dan Mahoney (Ports) wrote:
> More thoughts on mailman, specifically:
> 
> So, I just went to find an old FB post I made about mailman 2.x:
> 
> ===
> From the "Load Bearing B****it" department:
> Pretty much the entire world is stuck using an EOL'd mailing list manager (mailman 2.x), which depends on an EOL'd python (2.7).  
> This includes:
> * All the gnu mailing lists
> * All of the linux mailing lists at listman.redhat
> * all the FreeBSD mailing lists
> * all the sourceforge mailing lists
> * all the IETF mailing lists
> * all of lists.isc.org
> * NANOG
> ===
> 
> That’s an AWFUL LOT of sysadmins, network admins, and coders who looked long and hard at Mailman 3 and decided “that’s not ready yet”.
> 
> I think, if *nothing else*, tauthon needs to be stapled in for mailman, even if it lives under /usr/local/mailman/bin or something (and bakes in the couple of dependencies).
> 
> I know about the archive incompatibility.  There *might* be a GSOC project to fix it.  Maybe.  Other changes can happen with greater use, but clearly there’s a first-mover disadvantage here.
> 
I concur. The thought of losing Mailman 2.x fills me with dread.

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Greg