On Mon, Jan 4, 2021, at 12:49 PM, Terri Oda wrote: > Happy new year everyone!
Happy new year to you too Terri! > > I'm starting to prep Python for GSoC 2021, and I wanted to issue the > usual invitation that we'd be happy to have Mailman as a sub-org if > anyone wants to do GSoC this year. (Mailman's been fine as a separate > org, but I have to do the paperwork for Python anyhow so I figured I'd > offer if there's interest but no one wants to cover the admin side of > things.) Thanks for the head start, I do want us to participate this year and am planning to mentor atleast one student. > Also, I have two mailman related ideas! > > 1. Seamless archive converter for 2.1 -> 3.* > > A friend was grousing that there was no "nice" way to retain old archive > urls without keeping a static copy of things, and it got me to thinking > that it would definitely be possible to build something that handled the > old urls and redirected or made them work seamlessly, but we didn't do > it because parsing the old archives basically requires you to scrape > them because otherwise we couldn't guarantee that the urls would be > stable from a re-parsed mbox. > > It's boring and finicky web scraping work to associate the old url and > do the right things to make it work seamlessly in hyperkitty, but > probably not too hard, so I was thinking that it might be suitable for a > GSoC student. This sounds like a very nice idea! How are you thinking of associating the web URLs (basically, number of the page I guess?) to Email entries in Hyperkitty since I don't see the web pages having Message-ID. > > 2. Old mailman "skin" for postorius > > Make mailman look like the 2.1 interface for people who really love the > old system. There's a few options that would be different, but the > goal would be to make it pretty much look the same only with a few > options changed, for people who are very change adverse. We had > intended for it to be *possible* to reskin Postorius, but I don't think > too many people have done it, so this would be a test to see how doable > that is and probably fix any underlying issues that make reskinning the > interface hard. Honestly, we could also have a student do a brand new > skin if we had someone who loved UI design, but I suspect replicating > the old interface would be less work, and since this year's GSoC hours > have been cut in half, i'd rather start with something easier. Is this intended to be like a CSS refresh or like re-write the interface kind of project? I am thinking it might be more of the former than latter, which might be a much bigger project. > I've been out of mailman dev for 3 years, so I'm probably not the ideal > mentor, but I'm up for helping on either of those if Mailman as a whole > is interested in doing the GSoC thing this year. Another idea that I've been thinking is supporting User management in Postorius. It would list all registered Users in Django & Core along with their Addresses and perhaps Subscriptions. If time permits, allow doing some actions on user's behalf like adding a new address, verifying a new address, deleting the User and all their subscriptions etc. -- thanks, Abhilash Raj (maxking) _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list -- mailman-developers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-developers-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-developers.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: https://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: https://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
