1. The next-gen. list archiver
HyperKitty
The next-gen. list archiver
Presented by
Aurélien Bompard
Fedora Engineering
Red Hat Tech Talks 2015 − CC-BY

2. Who's that guy? Aurélien Bompard Based in Paris, France.
Fedora Engineering team since summer 2012
Contributor to the Fedora project since 2003
Lead developer of HyperKitty
Trying to “fix the mailing-lists problem”.
Mizmo & Karen Tang worked on the design
Development, deployment, mentoring, communication, etc.

3. Today's Topics What are we talking about? What's next for us?
How can I help?
Demo!

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
Admin interface is CGI-based and generates configuration files
Different environments, technologies, skillsets

6. Mailman 3 Modern and modular design Key improvements
No more “happy Mailman day” !
No storing of plain-text passwords
REST API, very extendable
Released in April 2015 (after PyCon America)

7. HyperKitty An archiver plugin for Mailman3
Web app based on Python & Django
Stores in an SQL database
Runs analysis and statistics
Looks like a web forum
Fulltext search across the lists
Modern web features
Mobile-friendly

8. Architecture

9. Deployment Use mailman-bundler for PoCs
Installs Mailman3 + HyperKitty + Postorius
All integrated and ready to go
Development & production setups
For real production deployments
RPMs for RHEL7 and Fedora 21 (22 is coming)
SELinux support
Simplified migrations
Ansible playbooks for Fedora Infra

11. Mobile view

12. In the Fedora infra 4 servers deployed
A development server in the Fedora cloud
A staging server
Two production servers
Deployment methods
RPMs
Ansible playbooks (using roles)

13. In the Fedora infra The staging server
Mirrors the Fedora mailing-lists
A good way to test HyperKitty
The production servers
Real, functional mailman3 instance.
A test-mailman3 list
A way to transition lists from the old servers to the new.
A few *-commits lists are migrated

14. The future Technical improvements Migrate from LESS to SASS
New attachment system (with a progress bar!)
Download list archives as an mbox file
Community acceptance
Help Mailman communities across the world
Help Red Hat deploy Mailman 3 & HyperKitty
Prepare Docker images

15. How you can help Technical Django knowledge and optimization
Testing, installing, fuzzing, debugging
Statistical analysis, produce relevant metrics
Spam Troll detection
Not-too-technical
Design ideas to improve mailing-list usability
Installation tutorials

16. Questions & Demo abompard@fedoraproject.org Test the staging version:
Read the docs and install it:
Report bugs & check out the code: