1. The next-gen. list archiver
HyperKitty
The next-gen. list archiver
Presented by
Aurélien Bompard
Fedora Engineering
FUDCon Lawrence 2013 − CC-BY

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:
Report bugs:
Check out the code:
Read the docs and install it:

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. Cool techs, cool designs, huge audience... Come and be a part of it !
Questions?
Cool techs, cool designs, huge audience...
Come and be a part of it !
FUDCon Lawrence 2013 − CC-BY