= HyperKitty, the Mailman archiver =
HyperKitty is the archiver project for the Mailman 3 suite, allowing users to browse mailing lists, start new threads and reply to existing threads, mark messages as favorite, search archives, and so on. It is a Django-based web application that aims to implement [[DEV/ModernArchiving|modern archiving]]. It can also run standalone, without the rest of the Mailman suite, to serve as a web forum. It was originally started by the Fedora community.

You can read [[http://hyperkitty.readthedocs.org|the main documentation]] online. If you want to preview it, there are two demo servers ([[https://lists-dev.cloud.fedoraproject.org/archives/|1]], [[https://lists.stg.fedoraproject.org/archives/|2]]) available. They are development servers, so they may be broken or obsolete at the time you access them. It's usually OK, though.

== Developers ==
The source code is hosted [[https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty|on GitLab]]. See the [[HyperKitty/DevelopmentSetupGuide|Development Setup Guide]].

HyperKitty, being a Django application, can be used with any other Django project. If you are deploying HyperKitty standalone, you'll only need hyperkitty and hyperkitty_standalone.

== Design ==
We've done some [[DEV/Usability|usability testing]] on HyperKitty.

Design mockups are available at: [[http://linuxgrrl.com/fedora-ux/Projects/Mailman/Prototype%201/|http://linuxgrrl.com/fedora-ux/Projects/Mailman/Prototype%201/]]

More designs are available as blog posts:

 * http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2010/03/16/a-rich-web-interface-for-mailing-lists/
 * http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2012/02/29/7750-pixels-of-mailing-list-thread/
 * http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2012/03/13/mailman-brainstorm/
 * http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2012/03/14/mailman-brainstorm-2/

== Contact ==
Discussion about ''using'' HyperKitty happens on the [[https://lists.mailman3.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.mailman3.org/|Mailman3 Users]] mailing list, or on IRC: #mailman on Freenode.  ''Development'' discussions occur on the [[https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/mailman-developers.python.org/|Mailman Developers]] mailing list. Also see the [[https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty|repositories on GitLab]], where the issue tracker is also located.