If we use python as the webapp, would you expect to use a python web framework (ala django) for the UI?
On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 3:26 PM Daniel Gruno <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > I've been pondering about the difficulties PM faces in terms of getting > new contributors, and one of the core issues, as I see it, is our choice > of using Lua for the web application. Apart from locking people to > apache/nginx, it seems that people are - for lack of another word - > scared to touch the lua part of it, leaving only 2-3 people working on it. > > Therefore, I would like to propose that we switch (after 0.10) to a pure > python setup for Pony Mail. Thus, both the archivers and the web app > would be python. This would also rid us of a lot of homegrown > self-invented wheels within the project. > > I will of course do my best to help with the bulk of the work here, and > I would be immensely grateful if others would support this and help out > with the process of converting. I also have acknowledgements from a few > people that would like to help with the transition, should we agree on > this. > > So....thoughts? > > > With regards, > Daniel. >
