On 3/22/2012 5:48 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@list.org> wrote: > >> If we add something like $archive_url to the decoration interpolation >> dictionary, what happens when we have multiple archivers that support >> permalink() enabled? Do we chose one at random (these are unordered)? > -1
I agree so -2. I thinking is if you list administrator/owner has not defined an order, make it simple and impose a known order in that case - alphabetize/sort the order and pick the first one. > >> Do we add a configuration variable to select a "primary" archiver for this? > +1 +2 This would allow the list administrator/owner to define and pick the primary archiver. For any other archivers, people can go to the Archived-At header(s). > > If there's *no* archiver configuration variable, we don't know where to > point to anyway for Gmane-like archivers (yes, I know, catering to Gmane > will give Brad hives, but some people like Gmane). The local archive, if it > exists, may seem TOOWTDI, but it might not be the preferred one even if > it's the only one configured in Mailman (although that seems a lot less > likely than the case where somebody just grandfathers an existing Gmane > subscription as the archive URL of choice). > >> Do we allow something like $archive_url.prototype as an interpolation >> variable to select e.g. the 'prototype' archiver? > -1 > > Too complex. If people want alternative archives, they can go to > the list FAQ or the Archived-At headers. If we go this way, we'd > better have a *really* good comment and a pre-existing entry in > the FAQ to save Mark some time. :-) I agree with Stephen. Too complex and can be confusing without it being well documented with a number of examples. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9