[tor-project] Reminder: mailman 3 upgrade imminent (TPA-RFC-71)

[Antoine Beaupré]

Hi,

As mentioned in early October, we're in the process of upgrading our
main mail server, which includes upgrading to the shiny new Mailman 3
platform.

We have, right now, a prototype mailman 3 server available at:

https://lists-01.torproject.org/

It's hidden behind the usual "trivial" authentication (ask us on IRC if
you don't remember what it is), but should otherwise work normally.

I'm going to start by migrating the TPA mailing list and we'll be
testing this for a couple of days, but, next week, I'll start migrating
the other mailing lists (including this one!).

If people want to jump in front of that train early and be part of the
beta testers, then by all means I'm happy to have your mailing list be
part of the early adopters.

Be warned that Mailman 3 is a significant upgrade from Mailman 2. There
are some great things (like unified authentication), and some less great
things (like a more complex design and "shinier" web interface that
might not be everyone's taste).

As a reminder, we're doing this upgrade a little rushed because the main
mail server is now unsupported for security upgrades. See the details of
the proposal here:

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/policy/tpa-rfc-71-emergency-email-deployments-round-2

... with the milestone tracking actual work issues in:

https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/milestones/16

(Sorry for cross-posting this, but this seems like it warrants wider
distribution. As a rule of thumb, I selected mailing lists with public
archives that had posts in October 2024, removing duplicates like
anti-censorship-team and -alerts.

I also suspect many of those mailing lists will refuse my message
because I'm not subscribed, but I will have tried. :))

Phew!

a.

-- 
Antoine Beaupré
torproject.org system administration