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diff --git a/src/mailman/docs/START.rst b/src/mailman/docs/START.rst index 57df48e30..da76feae0 100644 --- a/src/mailman/docs/START.rst +++ b/src/mailman/docs/START.rst @@ -9,11 +9,8 @@ Beta Release ============ This is a beta release. The developers believe it has sufficient -functionality to provide full services to a mailing list, but it is not ready -for production yet. Interfaces and administration may differ substantially -from the alpha series, but changes should be incremental going forward from -beta 1. Changes from the alpha series will be described in notes to the main -text. +functionality to provide full mailing list services, but it is not yet ready +for production use. The Mailman 3 beta releases are being provided to give developers and other interested people an early look at the next major version, and site @@ -40,9 +37,9 @@ $PATH or it can be accessible via the ``python2.6`` or ``python2.7`` binary. If your operating system does not include Python, see http://www.python.org downloading and installing it from source. Python 3 is not yet supported. -In this documentation, a bare ``python`` refers to the python used to invoke -``bootstrap.py``, which might be ``python2.6`` or ``python2.7``, as well as -the system ``python`` or an absolute path. +In this documentation, a bare ``python`` refers to the Python executable used +to invoke ``bootstrap.py``, which might be ``python2.6`` or ``python2.7``, as +well as the system ``python`` or an absolute path. Mailman 3 is now based on the `zc.buildout`_ infrastructure, which greatly simplifies building and testing Mailman. |