[FFmpeg-devel] Mailman3 Upgrade

[James Almer]

On 8/18/2025 7:08 PM, Timo Rothenpieler via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> As you might have noticed, a bunch of big Mail-Hosters have introduced 
> new, even stricter, requirements. Primarily it's Microsoft, but others 
> seem to already have followed suit.
> So we had to configure the list to send all mails as coming from the 
> list itself.
> 
> At least to me this seems highly annoying and makes it hard at times to 
> immediately see who the mail is even from.
> 
> mailman2 has no good way to deal with that in a more reasonable way.
> Mailman3 is already set up, and can be migrated to at a moments notice.
> The only problem with it is that I really don't like the new archives.
> It has ways to better deal with it, like better DMARC/SPF/... support in 
> general, and support for ARC signing.
> 
> As an example, I already migrated nut-devel:
> https://lists.ffmpeg.org/archives/list/nut-devel@ffmpeg.org/latest
> 
> Sooner or later, we will have to migrate no matter what.
> Python2 is on its way out, and we will have to upgrade to an OS version 
> that does not ship it anymore eventually.
> 
> So the question is, should I just migrate ffmpeg-devel, and if that goes 
> well, pull over all the other lists as well?

IMO yes. The archive, while ugly, should not be a blocker to make the 
mailing list more usable for everyone (Plus it allows us to update the 
server distro).

> 
> In theory the migration should go without anyone noticing. It worked for 
> nut-devel, but that's not exactly the most active list.
> 
> 
> 
> Timo
> 
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