[kwlug-disc] Service resource management: i.e. Mailman3 vs Mailman2

[Ronald Barnes]

Khalid Baheyeldin wrote on 2025-01-30 11:05:


> I am reminded of our discussion on this group about (October last
> year) about having lean software and avoiding bloat.

I'm not sure this qualifies as bloat though.

Well, NNTP integration by default is, but I think it's been disabled by 
default at my suggestion.


> If the functionality is still the basic set (mail group + users
> adding and removing themselves, archive of threads), then using over
> 20X the RAM is totally unwarranted.
Per my other message, it does quite a bit more. A lot more.


Whether those added features are of benefit to everyone is debatable.


I can't really fault the authors for updating the software to something 
that covers their usage on huge lists - "scratching an itch" is a 
central tenet of OS software.


Maybe a fork of v2 that works with Python3 and doesn't look like it is 
slathered in leaded paint would be nice.