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diff --git a/src/mailman/docs/ALPHA.txt b/src/mailman/docs/ALPHA.txt index 66f54ddc7..db86a9141 100644 --- a/src/mailman/docs/ALPHA.txt +++ b/src/mailman/docs/ALPHA.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ things may not work yet. Your participation is encouraged. Your feedback and contributions are welcome. Please submit bug reports on the Mailman bug tracker at https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman though you will currently need to have a login on Launchpad to do so. You can also send email to the -mailman-developers mailing list. +mailman-developers@python.org mailing list. Using the Alpha @@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ for details on getting Python 2.6. Mailman 3 is now based on the `zc.buildout`_ infrastructure, which greatly simplifies building and testing Mailman. -You will need the gettext package (specifically, the msgfmt(1) command) in -order to build the I18N message catalogs. - You do not need anything other than Python 2.6 and an internet connection to get all the other Mailman 3 dependencies. Here are the commands to build everything:: @@ -59,17 +56,25 @@ anywhere, but I like to call it ``mailman.cfg``. For any value in ``schema.cfg`` you want to override, just add a section header (the square-bracketed names) and then the key/value pair you want to override. -You will need to pass the ``-C`` flag to any bin command you want to invoke, -pointing it at your ``mailman.cfg`` file. Or you can set the environment -variable ``$MAILMAN_CONFIG_FILE`` to point to your configuration file. +Mailman searches for its configuration file using the following search path. +The first existing file found wins. + + * ``-C config`` command line option + * ``$MAILMAN_CONFIG_FILE`` environment variable + * ``./mailman.cfg`` + * ``~/.mailman.cfg`` + * ``/etc/mailman.cfg`` + +Run the ``bin/mailman info`` command to see which configuration file Mailman +will use, and where it will put its database file. The first time you run +this, Mailman will also create any necessary run-time directories and log +files. -You can use the ``bin/mailman`` script to create and remove mailing lists, -display all the existing mailing lists, subscribe members, etc. Try -``bin/mailman --help`` for details. You use the ``bin/mailman start`` command -to start the queue runners. +Try ``bin/mailman --help`` for more details. You can use the commands +``bin/mailman start`` to start the queue runner daemons, and of course +``bin/mailman stop`` to stop them. -Please note that the web u/i does **not** work yet. Contributions are -welcome! +There is no web u/i right now. Contributions are welcome! .. _`zc.buildout`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout |