Happy new year everyone!
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.)
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.
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.
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.
Terri
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