On Oct 25, 2011, at 05:23 PM, curtis Hovey wrote: >I fixed some critical bugs in the mailing list archives earlier this >year. I also saw an opportunity to fix several UI bugs since I was >working in the MHonArc templates. As I was testing the changes it >occurred to me that In the a matter of hours, I could change the >templates to generate JSON instead of HTML. I dismissed the idea as >outlandish, but after 6 months, I think it may not be crazy. > >We have several problems that I think can be solved by replacing the >MHonArc-generated HTML pages with data that the Launchpad webapp could >understand. > > * The UI does not match the Website. > * The messages are missing Lp linkification to bugs and users. > * The reverse index pages causes hour-long delays adding new messages. > * ISD desupported our Apache mod to authenticate team members; we > cannot view private lists. > >We might be able to change lp-mhonarc-common.mrc to generate JSON and >treat the lists.launchpad.net as JSON file server. > > * Only the Launchpad webapp could request files from the server http > server. > * The index and message files would be tuned to easy interpretation by Lp. > * Team pages would get views to show messages and message listings. > * Lp would update the JSON data with links to users and bugs. > * Pages could be rendered using TALES or moustache temples with the > full Lp UI > * While JSON + moustache can be done on the client, the JSON must > still pass though Lp to be authorised, sanitised, and linkified. > * Lp would read the index JSON and do the reversing itself, and use a > cached version when possible > * Messages could be shown as a thread. > * The pages would be indexable by google to appear in search.
This is a very neat idea. I'd suggest structuring the changes in such a way that upstream might accept them, but tbh, I'm not sure MHonArc is still a healthy project. The last release was apparently in January 2011, and the ViewCVS for the project is a dead link. It's hard to tell from the CVS snapshot what, if anything, has been happening lately. >Doing this might be easier than fixing private lists. > >We can replace MHonArc in the future with another system that serves JSON. So, let's fix Pipermail to have stable urls and output JSON. That Perl stuff will rot your brain. :) -Barry
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