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1. HyperKitty
The next-gen. list archiver
Presented by
Aurélien Bompard
Fedora Engineering
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2. Today's Topics
Where we come from
Mailman today
Máirín's and Luke's vision
Where we are
Mailman 3
HyperKitty
Where we will be
Planned features
How you can help

3. The past

4. Mailman 2.1
Maintenance branch
One release a year since 2006
A monolithic package :
Mailing-list engine
Web archiver (pipermail)
Web admin interface

5. What's wrong
Pipermail generates static HTML
Not directly searchable
No user-based customization
No summary / stats page
Read-only
Admin interface is CGI-based and generates
configuration files
Different environments, technologies,
skillsets

6. The vision
Early 2010 : Máirín & Luke
Complement the existing mailing-lists
Thread statistics (participants, replies)
List statistics (topics, people)
Post rating
User rating (“karma”)
Thread categories

7. A new hope
Early 2012 : Fedora Engineering
Refined mockup
Moar mockups !!1
Spring/summer: implementation starts
Toshio, Pingou, Syst3mW0rm, yours truly

8. The present

9. Mailman 3
Modern and modular design
Mailman itself: mailing-list and REST API
Postorius: the web admin UI
HyperKitty: the web archiver
Queues, runners, TDD, ...
Key improvements
No more “happy Mailman day” !
No storing of plain-text passwords
When? RSN. Fall 2012: season of the delays

10. HyperKitty
An archiver plugin for Mailman3
KittyStore: the storage engine
SQL database (Storm ORM)
Analysis and statistics
HyperKitty: the web UI
Django-based
Interfaces with KittyStore
Implements “ModernArchiving” on list.org
Implement some of Mo's mockups

11. The future

12. Planned features
Post from the web
A few challenges there (spam, SPF, etc.)
Many ideas in Mo's mockups
Rankings, categories
Improving signal-to-noise ratio
Ideas from the Debian community
Joey Hess (thread patterns)
A. Delanoë and B. Conein (socio-meter)

13. How you can help
HyperKitty needs you
UI and design
Django knowledge and optimization
Testing, installing, fuzzing, debugging
KittyStore needs you
Statistical analysis
Spam Troll detection
Frustrated with mailing-lists ? Every idea
counts.

14. Where you can help
Test the development version:
http://mm3test.fedoraproject.org
Report bugs:
http://fedorahosted.org/hyperkitty
Check out the code:
http://github.com/hyperkitty
Read the docs and install it:
http://hyperkitty.rtfd.org

15. Summary
Mailman 2.1 is growing old, Mailman 3 is
coming
HyperKitty will be its main archiver
Designed by the Fedora community for
everyone
Bridge the gap between mailing lists and
web forums

16. Questions?
Cool techs, cool designs, huge audience...
Come and be a part of it !
http://fedorahosted.org/hyperkitty
abompard@fedoraproject.org
FUDCon Lawrence 2013 − CC-BY