WWSYMPA.FCGI(8)
β¨ WWSYMPA.FCGI(8) β¨
okay bestie, gather round, because this one is literally the main character of the whole Sympa saga π
her manual name is wwsympa.fcgi (and her nickname around the group chat is wwsympa), and yes she's a section 8 page, so you know she runs with the big daemons π
π NAME π
wwsympa, wwsympa.fcgi β that's WWSympa</s>, aka Sympa's web interface πΈ the whole pretty face of the operation, fr fr.
π DESCRIPTION π
So like, this FastCGI script completely handles all aspects of the Sympa web interface. All of them. Every single one. She's not doing a little bit and calling it a day β she is the entire web interface, no cap π«Ά
If you wanna know the details on WWSympa β the lore, the deep cuts, the iykyk stuff β go read the Sympa Administration Manual:
https://www.sympa.community/manual/
that's the link, go click it, she's worth it β¨
π¦ HISTORY π¦
okay so storytime π WWSympa was initially written by these iconic legends:
- Serge Aumont
<sa AT cru.fr>π - Olivier SalaΓΌn
<os AT cru.fr>π
and the first alpha version of WWSympa appeared on Sympa 2.3.4. a little baby alpha π₯Ή look at her now.
ngl, big glow-up energy. from alpha 2.3.4 to full-on FastCGI queen. we love to see it ππ
and that's the tea, bestie π this page is from sympa 6.2.80, dated 2026-10-19, and it lives in section 8 of the manual. slay, periodt, go read the Sympa Administration Manual, mwah π πβ¨
π¦ where this page comes from
- fedora 43: sympa 6.2.80-2.fc43 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later AND (OFL-1.1-RFN AND MIT) AND OFL-1.1-RFN AND MIT and (MIT OR GPL-2.0-only)
- fedora 44: sympa 6.2.80-2.fc44 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later AND (OFL-1.1-RFN AND MIT) AND OFL-1.1-RFN AND MIT and (MIT OR GPL-2.0-only)
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms