Hi Michael, Did you ever get an answer to this request? I broke a bunch of ribs on the 14th and have been pretty useless for the last two weeks, but now I have a chance to catch up on correspondence of less than "life or death" importance.
Regards Steve Michael Skeen writes: > Hello GNU Mailman Community, > > > I am part of an undergraduate research group focusing on software > architecture patterns and quality attributes at Utah Valley University. We > recently analyzed the work published on GNU Mailman in the Architecture of > Open Source Applications <http://aosabook.org/en/index.html> (AOSA) and > referenced it in a paper we presented at the 13th Working IEEE/IFIP > Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA), as attached. As a part of our > continuing research we wish to validate our architectural analysis for GNU > Mailman with the current developers. > > > We would like to know if we are missing any patterns or quality attributes > that may have been included in GNU Mailman, or if there are any we listed > that aren’t used. Any additional comment on these topics you might have > would also, of course, be welcome. > > > We believe we found the following software architectural patterns in this > application: > > > * Pattern Name | Is This Found in the Architecture? (yes / no / don't know) > | Comments (optional)* > > Client Server Layers Master and Commander Pipes and Filters Shared > Repository Simple Repository > > Other? > > > We also identified the following quality attributes: > > > * Attribute Name | Is This Found in the Architecture? | Comments (optional)* > > Scalability Extensibility Performance Portability Reliability > > Other? > > > For your convenience, we have a complete list below of the patterns and > quality attributes we referred to when conducting our research. To clarify, > we are specifically studying architectural patterns, rather than design > patterns such as the GoF patterns. > > > Architectural Patterns Considered > > Quality Attributes Considered > > Active Repository > > Scalability > > Batch > > Usability > > Blackboard > > Extensibility > > Broker > > Performance > > Client Server > > Portability > > Event System > > Flexibility > > Explicit Invocation > > Reliability > > Implicit Invocation > > Maintainability > > Indirection Layer > > Security > > Interceptor > > Testability > > Interpreter > > Capacity > > Layers > > Cost > > Master and Commander > > Legality > > Microkernel > > Modularity > > Model View Controller > > Robustness > > Peer to Peer > > > Pipes and Filters > > > Plugin > > > Presentation Abstraction Control > > > Publish Subscribe > > > Reflection > > > Rule-Based System > > > Shared Repository > > > Simple Repository > > > State Based > > > Virtual Machine > > > > Please respond by October 25th, if possible. > > Thank you for considering our request, and for your continued work on GNU > Mailman. > > > Sincerely, > > > Michael Skeen, with > > Erich Gubler, > > Danielle Skinner, > > Brandon Leishman, > > Neil Harrison, Ph.D. (advisor) > > > Reference: Neil B. Harrison, Erich Gubler, Danielle Skinner, "Software > Architecture Pattern Morphology in Open-Source Systems",WICSA, 2016, 2016 > 13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA), 2016 > 13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) 2016, > pp. 91-98, doi:10.1109/WICSA.2016.8 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > PDF: external: PID4110571 (Morphology).pdf, PDF [fetch] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 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/turnbull.stephen.fw%40u.tsukuba.ac.jp > > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 _______________________________________________ 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
