Hi, I will surely submit my proposal by the end of 20th March. Actually I am busy in my mid term exams, It will end on 20th morning. I will submit it thereafter. Thanks for your response. I will discuss more about it later.
Thanks Ashish Kumar On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > Ashish Kumar writes: > > > 1. Use of different email addresses - so called aliases - for sending > > emails: This is a good point as a user perspective. We will give user an > > option to save an email address and out of the entered email address we > > will ask which email address he/she want to use for sending email. I > think > > we can extend this feature for moderators and owners too. > > I don't see how you plan to do this. Picking the right alias is a MUA > function, not a list function. Please be more specific about the > workflow you have in mind. "Have aliases" sounds good, but what does > this mean for the user's actions and the system's responses? If you > just mean multiple subscriptions under different addresses, Mailman > has always allowed that (it's impossible to prevent), and made it > convenient by providing a "no mail" flag for the address. > > > 2. Dynamic list: It is also another idea for subscribers. > > This is a separate project. > > > 3. There is also a feature about essay. The essay feature can be > enabled by > > the list creator when creating the list, and at the same time the list > > creator can choose which questions to ask. The default when enabling > this > > feature are the questions used for the Systers maillist but by simply > > editing the field with the questions the list creator can choose to have > > other questions instead. [ Reference : Above link] > > I think you'll find that editing is not so simple. Users will not do > this right. Many cannot handle simple formatting rules like > reStructuredText or Markdown. So you will need to provide an > interface that automatically numbers the questions, allows the user > to insert, delete, edit, and reorder questions, and "cleans" the > question (eg stripping leading and trailing whitespace) as well as > allowing an optional/required setting per question. Bonus points for > a device that allows the questions asked to depend on previous > answers. Perhaps content length constraints (maximum for most > questions, minimum for essay) per question. Image uploads (must be > able to validate!!) All answers must be validated. > > > I have a doubt if essay feature can be part of subscriber's profile > > page. > > Yes, it should be. Systers has been a good citizen in our community, > it would be bad if we borrowed some of their ideas but didn't provide > a pretty complete set of their features and they had to continue their > fork just to get basic features. > > Barry also has dreams of making Mailman a community center that > obsoletes web fora and maybe even Facebook. Even though we were just > joking when we talked about that, I think these features make a lot of > sense for many communities, not just Systers. > > Please submit a proposal on Melange, addressing most of the points > above. If you're still not sure this is the project you want to do, > check GSoC but I believe you're allowed to submit up to 5 proposals > total and no rule against more than one to same org. If you feel very > unsure about it, say so, but putting it in Melange makes it a lot > easier to manage because it's a single design and plan. ML > discussions without such a focus don't work well. > > _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://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: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
