From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: Idea: mailman service (free for FOSS projects) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 21:56:20 +0000 Message-ID: <20170419215620.uggsdva5d56unxr3@abyayala> References: <20170418102336.GA19486@mail.thebird.nl> <87lgqwm911.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0xaT-0003Sm-5e for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:56:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0xaP-0004zM-Bj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:56:33 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lgqwm911.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel Ludovic Court=C3=A8s transcribed 1.1K bytes: > Heya! >=20 > Pjotr Prins skribis: >=20 > > I am thinking in this age of VPS' we could create a deployable Guix > > instance which people can roll out by themselves with some guarantee > > that it is safe and secure. There are also organisations willing to > > fork out some money to outsource their mailing lists. Basically a > > markup for running software on top of a running VPS (or maybe our own > > array of pi servers ;) > > > > Since we are the masters of deployment anyone interested building up = a > > little business this way? After mailman there could be git hosting, > > etc. We can create FOSS solutions which do not depend on single > > providers, an answer to people using Google Groups now, or github. >=20 > I agree with this vision! I think OS declarations make this pretty > simple (this and also specialized distros =C3=A0 la FreedomBox, Tails, = etc., > but that=E2=80=99s another story.) >=20 > ng0 packaged a whole bunch of Mailman=E2=80=99s and Kallithea=E2=80=99s= (source code > hosting) dependencies already: >=20 > https://bugs.gnu.org/25733 > https://bugs.gnu.org/25736 >=20 > Ludo=E2=80=99. >=20 A side note: Kallithea is on hold as they seem to be preparing for a new = release, or at least I hope so. The forced version numbers are old and there's an = open but slow discussion on this. Meanwhile I've seen many dependencies I've packaged added as dependencies= for other python packages. duplicate efforts, not so good but it happens. --=20 PGP and more: https://people.pragmatique.xyz/ng0/