Hi folks,
with the incoming new UI and with ElasticSearch moving far away from
what Pony Mail supports currently, I think it's also time to get started
on a "next generation" of Pony Mail, that supports the new structures
laid out in ES 7.x and above, and while we're at it....I think we should
ditch Lua and use a pure python implementation instead, to increase the
number of potential contributors (and make use of Python's excellent
libraries).
SO, with all that said, I'll be setting up a new repository for this
'next generation' of Pony Mail, so as to not start mixing the old and
the new too much. I think this is justified, as it's a very major shift
from the old code-base, and the two would be internally incompatible
(except for the JSON API, I believe that should remain as is.)
My plan is to:
- create a new repository
- import the UIX code-base into this
- import the tools we have from pony v1, tweak those later on
- get started on a pure python back-end for the UI (I have some
semblance of a prototype that I'm hacking on currently)
- finally, write a migration script for migrating from the old DBs to
the new format.
Comments/feedback is always welcome as usual :)
With regards,
Daniel.
