On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:27 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > >> Sure. But why bother? > >Well, you already get 90% of that for free in MM3 already, except it's >only exposed in the test suite. Launchpad has similar functionality >and for developers, it's very useful. It's probably not useful to the >major of deployments, so it shouldn't be a prominent option, but it >could be an option nonetheless. > >> IMO a much more useful approach would be a >> simple way to clone a list in every way but the membership list and >> the name.
Barry Warsaw replied: >There are two aspects to "cloning". MM3 already has a style >management facility, which allows for defining a set of defaults that >can be applied to a list when it's created, or even afterward. But >those are choices of system defined options. What's not currently >available is the ability to copy user supplied information from one >list to another. That might be an interesting addition. >> BTW, I think that MM developers is the wrong place for this >> discussion, as clearly there's a major difference of consciousness >> between me and Mark on the one hand and LuKreme on the other. That's >> not a situation where we can take a well-understood requirement to MMD >> and bang out a spec. If something needs to be done here, we need to >> get "real users'" opinions of what needs doing, I think. > > >I agree it's important to gather user requirements, but this >particular discussion seems to center on new features, so it >definitely crosses over to developers. > >-Barry I have a number of list templates (around 20) that I have created. When I need to create a new list, I pick the proper template, copy it to a new file, modify that file for the new list (real_name, info, description, archive and digest options, etc.) and then run a script that creates the new list from the file I have just modified. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 222, Room D209 Internet: bsfin...@anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
